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Subject: Re: Boot -c   in 3.1-RELEASE
To: admin@Gccomm.Net (Jeff Ehrenkrantz)
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 1999 16:21:52 -0600 (CST)
From: Jack Winslade <jsw@cywub.sitel.net>
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>  I recently Installed 3.1 Release on a drive having the old boot blocks.
> Thus it is necessary for me to do a "boot -c" to tweak an Ethernet isa
> address.  Although the system does work after this tweak. The change does
> not get stored. This system is a minimum hard drive/system install so I
> don't have the space to compile a custom kernel at this point. Can someone
> tell me why the changes don't get saved? & any chance I can binary edit the
> Generic Kernel to take care of my prob. Or is there some other solution
> available
> Regards.... ..je

I've wondered about this too, ditto with the -s option.  I talked 
somebody through an installation in Detroit last week, and was amazed 
when these did not work.  I set up an identical system here and verified 
that I cannot get into -c mode no matter how hard I try.

Workaround was to have the user do a custom kernel using a copy of the 
GENERIC that I modified and sent via e-mail.  This works but was a major 
pain.

Is there a trick we don't know, for the -c option, or is this a bug, or 
even a removed feature ??

Good day      JSW


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