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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA19 ; Wed, 27 Jan 93 13:10:26 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!Germany.EU.net!gmd.de!rrz.uni-koeln.de!unidui!du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de!prang 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 Lines: 25 Message-ID: <1k33rkINN6f8@unidui.uni-duisburg.de> References: <QfLze7y00WBNI1LkYS@andrew.cmu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] 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 -- Juergen Prang | prang@du9ds4.fb9dv.uni-duisburg.de University of Duisburg | Electrical Engineering | (intentionally left blank) Dept. of Dataprocessing | (no cookie available)