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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 1999 12:30:25 +0900
From:      "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Patrick Hartling <mystify@friley-184-92.res.iastate.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Reading a text file with BTX
Message-ID:  <36B12B51.9B9167DE@newsguy.com>
References:  <199901282243.OAA00567@dingo.cdrom.com>

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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> Ugh.  No.  BTX is the kernel that boot2 and the loader use.

Well, that much I knew... It's just that I took to calling boot2 as
"btx"... :-)

> boot0 is the module that gives you the F? prompt

What F? prompt???

> boot1 is invisible, it just loads boot2
> boot2 spins the | to begin with, and if you hit a key while it's paused,
>       you get it's prompt 'boot:', it starts the loader.

Thanks. I have a clearer idea of it now. In which part of the disk
each one of these resides?

--
Daniel C. Sobral			(8-DCS)
dcs@newsguy.com

	If you sell your soul to the Devil and all you get is an MCSE from
it, you haven't gotten market rate.

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