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- From: grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <2411@adagio.lemis.uucp>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 09:06:07 GMT
- References: <2406@adagio.lemis.uucp> <BzL0p3.A1K@chinet.chi.il.us> <1992Dec22.202127.8638@crd.ge.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.202127.8638@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- >In article <BzL0p3.A1K@chinet.chi.il.us>, les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
- >
- >| 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.
- >
- > 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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- Have you tried using a utility program such as DOS/diskcopy to make a
- physical copy of the boot disk, then mount it and replace the kernel?
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