Subject: Two things: i386 boot code and boot man page
To: None <gspiegel@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 09/14/1995 10:54:48
> From: Greg Spiegelberg <gspiegel@owens.ridgecrest.ca.us>
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 22:53:24 -0700 (PDT)
[ Where to save reboot parameters until next kernel load... ]
> I honestly don't know where you'd put it except for the MBR, a
> predesignated sector on the boot device, or in swap (provided the boot
> routine knows how to get at swap before loading the kernel.
>
> The MBR could get tricky.
Not only that, but it's rather dangerous to be writing that
each time someone uses the reboot command. (Easy to trash it!)
Gordon