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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: What is lacking in UNIX? (Re: UNIVEL MUST BE KIDDING!!!!!)
- Message-ID: <BzL0p3.A1K@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <1992Dec18.014048.26507@Celestial.COM> <BzHCE5.8FG@chinet.chi.il.us> <2406@adagio.lemis.uucp>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 23:46:14 GMT
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- In article <2406@adagio.lemis.uucp> grog@lemis.uucp (Greg Lehey) writes:
-
- >>Let's suppose that you manage to misconfigure the system such that
- >>it won't boot from the hard disk. How long does it take to fix
- >>it?
- >
- >That depends on the system and what's wrong with it. I just did this
- >today with UnixWare. I'm still waiting for the tapes to finish.
-
- Dell has an escape clause that sometimes helps if the problem is
- just a bad kernel build. When you boot up it gives you a few seconds
- to hit the space bar and get a prompt for an alternate kernel to
- boot. Unix.old is always the last copy that worked.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-