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bootstrap program

#32
From: Phil Nelson
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 1992 14:35
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>best choice...  It's nice to have Suns read /vmunix or /usr/stand/foo
>from the ROM, but I've always thought that there should be a better
>way to do that than to bury all sorts of filesystem code in ROM...

Look at how the autoboot monitor does it...  It works with ALL operating
systems!  In fact, since it now uses the BSD disk labels, it will work
with Minix, Mach and BSD.

--Phil
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Subject: bootstrap program
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