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From: cagney@chook.ua.oz (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: ibm-1.5.5:build.c: what happened to the 0xAA55 problem?
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Date: 15 Mar 90 12:46:31 GMT
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Reply-To: cagney@chook.ua.oz (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid)
Organization: Comp Sci, Uni of Adelaide, Australia
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A while ago there was some discussion about the minix boot block and how
some BIOS's require the word `0xAA55' at the end of the boot block.

By memory, Bruce Evans solved the problem and determined a way to fix it.
Looking at 1.5.x no such fix was included. Has this change been overlooked
or is there some other reason for not including the correction?

						Andrew Cagney
						cagney@cs.ua.oz.au