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- From: scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris)
- Subject: Re: boot string; boot & root floppy set (was Re: Occasional system hangs)
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- Date: 14 Dec 92 17:07:45 PST
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- karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
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- >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.
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