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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2001 10:38:30 -0400
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Doug Rabson <dfr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/alpha/libalpha srmdisk.c
Message-ID:  <20010405103829.A98807@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200104051029.f35AT0P85532@freefall.freebsd.org>; from dfr@FreeBSD.org on Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 03:29:00AM -0700
References:  <200104051029.f35AT0P85532@freefall.freebsd.org>

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Doug Rabson [dfr@FreeBSD.org] wrote:
> dfr         2001/04/05 03:28:56 PDT
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/boot/alpha/libalpha srmdisk.c 
>   Log:
>   Don't call prom_open() multiple times. This confuses some versions of SRM
>   and makes it impossible to boot from floppy and CD on some AlphaServer
>   platforms.

Can we MFC this, please?  It would be really nice to have 4.3 install
on big-iron machines without the dd workaround.

Thanks,

Drew

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