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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Error on Boot : "Error: C:0 H:0 S:0"
Date: 15 Oct 1996 22:07:59 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers) wrote:

> Wouldn't it be nice if any value typed in here was written to the boot
> blocks automatically - similar to the way -c writes back to the kernel
> that you boot.... I guess there isn't really room for the intelligence !

Something like this is available now (`lastboot', IIRC).  I haven't
seen much reports for it, neither failure nor success.  Last time i
tried, it still had a few rough edges though.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)