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From: deraadt@newt.cuc.ab.ca (Theo de Raadt)
Subject: Re: kernal switcher?
In-Reply-To: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU's message of 23 Jan 93 21: 27:59
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In article <CGD.93Jan23212759@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:
   regardless of whether or not you're using Julian's boot blocks 
   (which are wonderful!) you'll still have some problems with using
   a kernel not named "386bsd" because a lot of things depend
   on this being the kernel name...

That's right. WAY too many things count on it being the kernel name.
 <tdr.
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