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- From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: boot string; boot & root floppy set (was Re: Occasional system hangs)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.223452.18923@tfs.com>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 22:34:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.142822.6314@crash> <1992Dec14.175811.8493@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <Bz9MIu.8A3@NeoSoft.com>
- Organization: TRW Financial Systems
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- In article <Bz9MIu.8A3@NeoSoft.com> karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec14.175811.8493@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes:
- >>Another useful approach (that would require full acceptance of Julians
- >>boot blocks -- as in replacing the wdboot code as well) would be to
- >>allow "arguments" on boot to the kernel, like "NOFPU" and "10BITIO" for
- >>people with bad FPU's or single sigma 386's. Of course this would also
- >>require the ability to put these flags in a file somewhere so the
- >>kernel could have them "on" by default.
- >
- >Yeah, SCO has gotten a lot of mileage out of their "boot string" and the
- >ability to type in command options at boot time, like to select the
- >default tape drive, boot into a certain mode, boot a different kernel,
- >and so forth.
- >
- the new bootblocks allow the use of boot modes and differnet drves, kernels etc.
-
- >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.
-
- The new boot blocks also support this too. They only do it if they think
- you are booting off a floppy though. (may be commented out on some versions)
-
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