Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!njin!princeton!andante!mp
From: mp@andante.UUCP (Mark Plotnick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: can we boot vmunix off of a console-rl (4.3BSD VAX 8650)
Message-ID: <12934@andante.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 18:59:12 GMT
Reply-To: mp@allegra.att.com (Mark Plotnick)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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There have been times when, after a disk or controller or v-master
reconfiguration, we have problems locating the root filesystem or
backup root filesystems (either because of inadvertent errors such as
the disks getting moved around to different controllers or having their
drive numbers change, or because a filesystem or two gets smashed
because the new boards are defective).

It would be useful to be able to boot vmunix off of the console rl,
just to see the output of the autoconf stuff.  Is there a way to
massage vmunix to be a standalone program that can be loaded with
>>>LOAD, or is there a standalone driver for the console rl so that
'boot' can read in a file from the rl's rt11 filesystem?

	Mark Plotnick
	allegra!mp