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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA7613 ; Mon, 25 Jan 93 12:18:48 EST Organization: Sophomore, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!sgiblab!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!aw2t+ Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Message-ID: <QfLze7y00WBNI1LkYS@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:45:43 -0500 From: "Alex R.N. Wetmore" <aw2t+@andrew.cmu.edu> Subject: kernal switcher? Lines: 12 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. alex