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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Associating F key to boot from 2nd drive. How ?
Date: 17 Mar 1997 22:47:00 GMT
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dpunjabi@nyx.cs.du.edu (DINESH PUNJABI) wrote:

> Is there some way I can set up a shortcut F-key that
> will effectively boot from the 2nd drive (meaning
> be the equivalent of typing the 1:sd(0,a)/kernel 
> command) ?

This has nothing to do with the F-keys, but RTFM nextboot(8).

-- 
cheers, J"org

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