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From: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: how to boot a file different from /unix ?
Message-ID: <1990Jul29.201238.846@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 29 Jul 90 19:12:38 GMT
Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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Hi, 

I am playing with my operating system in order to fix a problem I have with 
IP5 on high load. The lboot -t nicely produces a new kernel, asks whether
I want to reconfigure the system upon startup, and is apparently o.k.

The only thing which puzzles me is that I am getting in trouble 
with the panic messages if I accidentially did something wrong.
The machine dies, and hangs, without RESET being active... I 
need to power off the machine in order to get the PROM prompt.  
I then load the inst, spawn a sh and rename my save file to /root/unix
in order to be able to boot. 

Question: In early versions of PROM, there was a hint how to boot a 
different file than /unix on the system disk. I didn't find that info 
somewhere now in the current documentation (3.3). 
How to boot a file other than /unix ? 

Merci 
Reinhard