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From: nvk@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Norman Kohn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: ps INSISTS on accessing the floppy (/dev/rdsk/fd) on SysV/AT 2.4
Keywords: ps
Message-ID: <3271@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 10 Apr 89 00:23:00 GMT
References: <264@tree.UUCP>
Reply-To: nvk@ddsw1.UUCP (Norman Kohn)
Organization: ddsw1.MCS.COM, Mundelein, IL
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In article <264@tree.UUCP> stever@tree.UUCP (Steve Rudek) writes:
>About 2 months ago a double panic made the root file system (/dev/dsk/0s0)
>unbootable...
>I hatched the idea of hacking a backup copy of the boot floppy disk to
>"cp list list.ug" before doing an 'upgrade'.  Voila!  The root file system
>once again became bootable and I figured that was the end of THAT.

Look at the shell script again.  You'll note that the kernel
is patched. As I recall, it's called something like hdrt.patch.
I bet you're running the floppy kernel without patch, and it's
dutifully going to the floppy from which it was born...

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