Subject: Re: Native boot [was Booter 1.8]
To: Erik E. Fair <fair@cesium.clock.org>
From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@injersey.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/17/1995 15:43:51
At 12:11 PM 12/17/95, "Erik E. Fair" (Time Keeper) wrote:
>At 4:10 12/17/95, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
>
>>A question out of ignorance: Does (did?) AUX boot natively or from a
>>running Mac OS? Is there anything to learn from AUX with regard to booting
>>a Unix system on Macintosh hardware?
>
>A/UX starts from a minimal System 6 and in later versions, System 7 MacOS.
>The A/UX Startup program is a minimal UNIX shell environment that you can
>run a variety of stand-alone programs in (fsck, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir,
>etc.). Quite useful for recovering a partly blasted system. The "launch"
>command, in this environment, loads and jumps into the A/UX kernel, which
>then blows the previous system completely away.

Could we get a similar ability in the Booter or in the installer to run
things such as fsck?  Good way to recover a system as he said.

Shawn.

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