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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: toasted root file system
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Date: 8 Oct 89 00:59:11 GMT
References: <MRD.89Oct6222225@sun.clarkson.edu> <1244@virtech.UUCP>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <1244@virtech.UUCP> cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill) writes:
>In article <MRD.89Oct6222225@sun.clarkson.edu>, mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes:
>> 
>> So what do you do if you mangle root?  
>
>You have to have some alternative method of booting the system, otherwise
>how did you get the os on there in the first place.

Monitor-mode, which comes from a prom?

				--Blair
				  "Front-panel switches?"