Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site mtxinu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!unisoft!mtxinu!ed From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Rebooting 4.2BSD on a 780 Message-ID: <423@mtxinu.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 20:28:55 EDT Article-I.D.: mtxinu.423 Posted: Wed Jun 26 20:28:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Jul-85 06:40:10 EDT References: <11030@brl-tgr.ARPA> <412@mtxinu.UUCP> <332@basser.oz> <323@umcp-cs.UUCP> <368@cheviot.UUCP> <405@umcp-cs.UUCP> Reply-To: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould) Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA Lines: 19 In article <405@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: >By the way, some 750 boot ROMs have a bug that loses the flags >if you don't specify the device name, so we generally do > > B/3 DUA0 > >to come up single user from something other than ra(0,6)vmunix. >(Yes, our root file system on our 750s is on /dev/ra0g.) That's true on older 750s. Current ones don't have the problem. DEC fixed that one at least a year and a half ago, since that's when we got our 750. A 750 I used that was new about 3 years ago did have the bug. -- Ed Gould mt Xinu, 2910 Seventh St., Berkeley, CA 94710 USA {ucbvax,decvax}!mtxinu!ed +1 415 644 0146 "A man of quality is not threatened by a woman of equality."