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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject: Re: switching to seral consoles
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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. :-)

-c should override the config file (so that you can recover from a bad
config file) and there should be a new command to source the config
file image (if any).

Bruce