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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.202127.8638@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 20:21:27 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> <BzHCE5.8FG@chinet.chi.il.us> <2406@adagio.lemis.uucp> <BzL0p3.A1K@chinet.chi.il.us>
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- In article <BzL0p3.A1K@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
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- | Dell has an escape clause that sometimes helps if the problem is
- | just a bad kernel build. When you boot up it gives you a few seconds
- | to hit the space bar and get a prompt for an alternate kernel to
- | boot. Unix.old is always the last copy that worked.
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- And their standard boot floppy has an option to do system maintenence,
- too. A fairly painless way to go, although I wish they gave me an easy
- way to generate a new boot floppy with my own fiendishly hacked kernel.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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