Re: Changes in disk layout in VAX?????

> If the vax secondary boot is small enough to fit it shouldn't be
> hard to stash it in the first 8KB (have to be careful not to trounce
> the label of course ;-)  We used to do this on i386.
> 
The boot blocks should fit just fine in 8k, together with code to be able
to read the filesystems for the /boot program. A quick look at the code
shows that this is the case also.  So, there should be no problem having 
the filesystem to start from block 0 on disk.

Side notice: The reason ffs starts at 8k is probably because the vax 
boot blocks were located there ~20 years ago.

-- Ragge