Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!qwerty!bs From: bs@qwerty.Germany.EU.net (Bernard Steiner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: /boot (was: Re: [386BSD] GCC 2.3.1 and kernel) Date: 16 Nov 1992 18:12:56 GMT Organization: CS Department, Dortmund University, Germany Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <1e8ob8INNh76@Germany.EU.net> References: <1992Nov11.141408.167@dde.dk> <1992Nov16.131930.3414@prism.poly.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: qwerty.germany.eu.net Keywords: 386BSD GCC kernel In article <1992Nov16.131930.3414@prism.poly.edu>, kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) writes: |> This way, if you have problems with the old |> kernel, you can just hit a key (okay, maybe you need to do it a few times) |> to get the bootstrap loader to look for alternate kernels. ....wich, of course, raises the question what on earth happened to good old in-filesystem /boot that you would hit return at or give the device, partition and filesystem name of your kernel to run. Is it some sort of superset of wdboot/bootwd or is that parentage disclaimed ? -Bernard -- Bernard Steiner, FB Informatik/IRB, Uni Dortmund, vox +49 231 755 2444 Postfach 500500, D-W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany fax +49 231 755 2386 bs@Germany.EU.net ...!uunet!unido!bs *III And they gave it Instructions, but knew it not. } From The Book of Nome, *IV It is, they said, a Box with a Funny Voice. } Mezzanine v.III-IV