Rebooting 4.2BSD on a 780
Chris Torek
chris at umcp-cs.UUCP
Thu Jun 20 02:09:36 AEST 1985
Uh, I think the idea was to boot from something other than /vmunix
so that if the machine crashed immediately, it would re-reboot the
old kernel. Useful if you're doing things from home, or any other
reason that the console is physically distant.
Perhaps what we should do is make /boot try to read /newvmunix
first, then if that fails read /vmunix (or to make the code smaller
how about /vmnuxi? :-) ).
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