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Re: Booting MicroVax II

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From: Brad Clements
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1989 15:15
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From article <1989Jun28.215725.27262@ntvax.uucp>, by chris@ntvax.uucp (Chris Britton):
> Greetings from North Texas.
> 
> I have a MicroVax II GPX running BSD 4.3 from Mt. Xinu.
> 
> I am trying to boot a new kernel by typing "b any" at the ">>>" prompt.
> My problem is that this is not working the same as our Vax 11/780.  Instead
> of letting me specify the device and file name at the "boot:" prompt
> (i.e. ra(0,0)nvmunix), it blows right by it as if I had just typed "b"
> instead of "b any".
> 

On our MVAX w/ Xinu. We type
	b/1
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