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- From: gab10@griffincd.amdahl.com (Gary A Browning)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: boot string; boot & root floppy set (was Re: Occasional system hangs)
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- Date: 15 Dec 92 20:46:28 GMT
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- In article <scott.724374170@pita.cns.ucla.edu>, scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu
- (Scott Burris) writes:
- > 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.
-
- I would like to see them. Of course, you might want to send them to Julian
- also.
-
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- Gary Browning | Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a
- | great idea hits you, and just before you realize
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