Rebooting 4.2BSD on a 780
Ed Gould
ed at mtxinu.UUCP
Thu Jun 27 10:28:55 AEST 1985
In article <405 at umcp-cs.UUCP> chris at umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>By the way, some 750 boot ROMs have a bug that loses the flags
>if you don't specify the device name, so we generally do
>
> B/3 DUA0
>
>to come up single user from something other than ra(0,6)vmunix.
>(Yes, our root file system on our 750s is on /dev/ra0g.)
That's true on older 750s. Current ones don't have the problem.
DEC fixed that one at least a year and a half ago, since that's
when we got our 750. A 750 I used that was new about 3 years
ago did have the bug.
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