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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.hawaii.edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!ucivax!ucla-cs!ucla-mic!pita.cns.ucla.edu!scott From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris) Subject: Re: boot string; boot & root floppy set (was Re: Occasional system hangs) Message-ID: <scott.724374170@pita.cns.ucla.edu> Nntp-Posting-Host: pita.cns.ucla.edu References: <1gaclpINN84v@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> <1992Dec11.142822.6314@crash> <1992Dec14.175811.8493@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <Bz9MIu.8A3@NeoSoft.com> Date: 14 Dec 92 17:07:45 PST Lines: 18 karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes: >Another useful thing would be to have a "boot and root" floppy set, where >booting would pull the kernel off of one floppy but then pause for you to >insert a second floppy with the "real" root filesystem on it. It would >free up about 400K on the floppy for more useful programs, if it wouldn't >be too hard to do. Julian's boot blocks can already prompt you to insert a new floppy after loading the kernel. There are a couple of changes I needed to make to get this to work -- something to do with the boot code not properly recognizing you are booting from floppy. I can post diffs if there's interest. -- ---------- Scott Burris UCLA Campus Network Services cnetslb@oac.ucla.edu (310) 206-4860 - OR - scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu