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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: switching to seral consoles 
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 06:23:53 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Misfeature: USERCONFIG_BOOT together with kernel.config starting and
> ending as above stops booting with -c from working.  The config file
> is preferred and there is no way to switc to interactive mode.

You just need to figure out a way of bootstrapping a mini-editor,
Bruce, so that they can edit out that last "q" in kernel.conf.  Then
it will drop into CLI mode instead. :-)

						Jordan