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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


do exactly this:

they also use BIOS for all ops so they will work for both 
SCSI and wd drives

julian
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