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From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Re: Rebuilding the kernel
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In article <SHAKER.93Feb27011435@lager.cisco.com> shaker@lager.cisco.com (Christopher J. Shaker) writes:
>
>In case some people don't already know this, some (all?) 386BSD boot blocks
>let you choose which kernel to boot. When you boot, it prints out the kernel
>that it thinks it should boot. If you wait, or hit <Return>, it will boot
>this kernel.  Instead, you can tell it to boot another kernel stored in the
>root directory by typing in the file name and hitting return.
>
>Thank you whoever added this feature!

Thanks Julian for this feature.  However, this feature only exists using
his enhanced boot blocks.


Nate


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