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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Hint about A/UX Startup
Message-ID: <%[dgf2.#m9@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 14 Sep 90 18:52:23 GMT
References: <2794@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk> <44797@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.unix.aux, article <44797@apple.Apple.COM>,
  chuq@Apple.COM (The Wandering Phew) writes:
< liam@cs.qmw.ac.uk (William Roberts) writes:
< 
< >In fact, since
< >the startmsg thing covers up all the technobabble, you might as well always 
< >use verbose autoconfiguration.
< 
< Which you can fix by changing the autolaunch string in AUX Startup to
< "launch -v -s" -- I personally like seeing what my machine is doing to, um,
< for me.
< 
It might also help when the machine freezes while displaying the "Loading"
message (I had that last week -- "launch" froze, "launch -v" worked
perfectly. Strange), or if your MacOS stuff is configured to come up in
something other than 1-bit video and random bits start appearing on the
screen, indicating a kernel panic whose message was printed in 1-bit mode.

NB: Memory (mine) states that the kernel debugger only works with a 9600 baud
terminal on the modem port. Assuming that I don't have one of these, and that
this information is correct, is there any reason I should include the kernel
debugger, and/or load the kernel symbol table (that's what the "-s" option to
launch does)?

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