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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!qwerty!bs
- From: bs@qwerty.Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: /boot (was: Re: [386BSD] GCC 2.3.1 and kernel)
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:12:56 GMT
- Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany
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- References: <1992Nov11.141408.167@dde.dk> <1992Nov16.131930.3414@prism.poly.edu>
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- Keywords: 386BSD GCC kernel
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- In article <1992Nov16.131930.3414@prism.poly.edu>, kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) writes:
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- |> This way, if you have problems with the old
- |> kernel, you can just hit a key (okay, maybe you need to do it a few times)
- |> to get the bootstrap loader to look for alternate kernels.
-
- ...wich, of course, raises the question what on earth happened to good old
- in-filesystem /boot that you would hit return at or give the device, partition
- and filesystem name of your kernel to run.
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- Is it some sort of superset of wdboot/bootwd or is that parentage disclaimed ?
-
- -Bernard
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- *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome,
- *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV
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