On Tue, 10 Oct 95 10:02:15 PDT 
 greywolf@defender.vas.viewlogic.com (Head Anarchy Conquest Knight Esquire of the Realm) wrote:

 > 	* Allow one to enter "-i path_to_init" to the bootloader and have it
 > 	  pass that to the kernel

That may not be practical on all ports.  Maybe a better solution is a new 
flag for `boothowto', like RB_ASKINIT or something, which is set by the 
boot code by `-i' or something, and then the code in main() that starts 
init could prompt for a pathname if this flag is set...Of course, this 
would require that the backup init be on the root filesystem, and hence 
sort of defeats the purpose.

 > 	* If something goes wrong with init (i.e. it dies) it should detect
 > 	  that somehow the exec failed and move on to the next one.
 > 
 > The first one is a bit more flexible.  I don't see that it would be all
 > that hard to implement.  The first one is also more useful in the case that
 > init simply hangs.

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