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From: broome@ucbvax.ARPA (Jonathan C. Broome)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Questions about Xenix on the AT
Message-ID: <10448@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Mon, 23-Sep-85 04:16:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 23 04:16:36 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 24-Sep-85 03:21:54 EDT
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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I am presently working on an AT running Xenix, and have a couple of strange
questions that I haven't been able to find answers for:

1. Is there any way to convince the boot program to _not_ ask if I want to
   boot the default kernel?  I want to be able to get to init without
   intervention from the keyboard - the first step towards auto-booting.
   If possible, I would like software hacks - patching /boot is fine, I can
   always load boot from a normal floppy if I want to boot a different
   kernel. Failing that, a hardware solution would do, or ... has anyone
   written their own boot program?

2. Assuming that a solution is available for #1 above, is there some way for
   software (init) to tell whether the machine auto-booted or ... ?? I have
   written my own init that does some messing with limits and tty modes, and
   would like it to be able to see if it should come up single- or multi-user.
   The current method is to check for a file called "/howboot" which tells it
   how to come up, but I don't really like this plan. (Besides, it still can't 
   auto-boot because of problem #1 above.)

3. Has anyone written a tty driver that does editing Berkeley-style?  I'd
   like to have ^W and ^R, for example. Does Xenix let you replace the 
   existing tty drivers when you reconfigure the kernel? (Sorry, I haven't
   been able to get the documentaion on this part yet...) How about pty's?

Any answers should be sent by mail, and thank you in advance.

--- Jon

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