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- From: prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de (Juergen Prang)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: kernal switcher?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 10:30:12 GMT
- Organization: Universitaet Duisburg GH
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- In comp.unix.bsd Alex R.N. Wetmore (aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- : Otherwise I guess I could write a shell script that just linked the
- : appropriate kernel to 386bsd and rebooted, but this would be nicer.
-
- Some months ago Julian Elischer posted a port of the Mach bootloader which
- serves your needs.
- One location where you may find this posting is
-
- ftp.uni-duisburg.de: /pub/unix/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/patches/boot.block
- login: anonymous, password: FULL e-mail address
-
- Hope this helps
- Juergen
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