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RE: Improved aboot (with updated documentation) from boot floppies

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> SRM definition boot block conflicts with where the DOS partition
> table resides. So, I guess the answer to your question would be 'no'.

So there isn't room to have both aboot and a DOS partition table there?

> Is Alpha/SRM the only Linux platform that can't boot from DOS
> partitions? Wouldn't surprise me if it was.

Which is a pain in the neck.

If SRM is really a show-stopper, maybe we can talk the SRM guys into helping
us out.

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