Which directories must be present to boot?

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From: M Gordon
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 1990 08:25

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While renaming things to see if the layout of my filesystem could be made to
look more like a UNIX system I discovered a (to my mind) bizarre fact about 
the boot process. If sys:c and sys:libs are not present the boot will start
the drive motor and then hang. If I create sys:c and sys:libs as empty 
directories my startup file is read and I can assign libs: and c: to their
correct places. I can understand the boot not working if sys:s cannot be found
but why does it need sys:c and sys:libs (these are empty directories so I know
it doesn't need to load anything from them before reading the startup file).
Can someone who knows more about what happens at boot time explain what's 
going on?

advaTHANKSnce

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From: mfg@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Gordon)
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Subject: Which directories must be present to boot?
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Date: 28 Aug 90 08:25:48 GMT
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