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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!agate!tfs.com!julian
- From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
- Subject: Re: kernal switcher?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.230638.27533@tfs.com>
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems, Berkeley, CA - 94704
- References: <QfLze7y00WBNI1LkYS@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 23:06:38 GMT
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- In article <QfLze7y00WBNI1LkYS@andrew.cmu.edu> "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >Is there any sort bootstrap for 386bsd that will let me choose which
- >kernel to boot up (so it would boot 386bsd by default, but I could make
- >something like 386bsd.x if I wanted to run X). I would like to run the
- >pcvt console driver, but I also use X sometimes (rarely, but enough that
- >I don't want to trash it). So, it would be nice to have two kernels
- >compiled, one that runs pcvt, and one that doesn't so that I can run X.
- >
- >
- >alex
- >
- The new bootblocks posted previously in c.u.b
- and in ref.tfs.com:/usr/src/sys.extras/julian-bootblocks
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- do exactly this:
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- they also use BIOS for all ops so they will work for both
- SCSI and wd drives
-
- julian
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