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- From: nbladt@autelca.ascom.ch (Norbert Bladt)
- Subject: Re: /boot (was: Re: [386BSD] GCC 2.3.1 and kernel)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.074728.2241@autelca.ascom.ch>
- Keywords: 386BSD GCC kernel
- Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland
- References: <1992Nov11.141408.167@dde.dk> <1992Nov16.131930.3414@prism.poly.edu> <1e8ob8INNh76@Germany.EU.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 07:47:28 GMT
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- bs@qwerty.Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) writes:
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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.
-
- >Is it some sort of superset of wdboot/bootwd or is that parentage disclaimed ?
-
- I am using the new boot-blocks from Julian and with those it is possible
- to select (read: type in) any file to boot, at least in the root directory
- and even choose the drive (wd or sd).
-
- That might be the answer !
-
- Norbert.
- PS.
- I know that it works, I had to do it a few days ago, to boot an old kernel
- because the serial drivers from cgd did hang my system and I want to test
- the serial ports with the old kernel. It is always a good idea to SAVE the
- old, working, kernel before moving the new one on top of it.
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