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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
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Distribution: world
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References: <1992Nov11.141408.167@dde.dk> <1992Nov16.131930.3414@prism.poly.edu>
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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
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