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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Rebooting 4.2BSD on a 780
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Date: Wed, 19-Jun-85 12:09:36 EDT
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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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