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From: ds4a@dalton.acc.Virginia.EDU (Dale Southard)
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Subject: Re: Booting
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Date: 17 Mar 91 19:34:17 GMT
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In article <1991Mar17.041307.23955@cs.ucla.edu> lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
>Is there a way to get a "clean" boot of the system without inits or
>cdevs?  I.e. booting as if the only thing in the system folder were
>the System and the Finder.  This would be very helpful if the system
>fails to boot because of problems with one of the inits (a problem
>I am having now).  Any keystroke to do this?

Well, the easiest way I know of is to throw the "INIT cdev" into the system
folder.  It will allow you to deactivate all INITS at startup by holding down
the 0 key.  It is available from the sumex-aim archives.



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