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From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
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Subject: Re: what was the last patch you sent out?
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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Doug Rabson wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > This kind of stuff is tough to debug- it's just a the point
> > > > where things are getting rewired, so even printfs are problematic.
> > > > 
> > > > Since the '-fl' argument is broken, and BREAKS don't work to get you out of
> > > > where you are, it's a lot of getting up and hitting the reset button.
> > > 
> > > The -fl argument works for me. It ignores -file but -flags appears to work
> > > (at least on my 433au).
> > sorry- meant '-fi'
> 
> A bogus workaround is to press space in the loader to interrupt it, then
> 'unload' and 'load kernel.foo'

DON"T use SPACE. That causes me to boot right away on my pc164. I use 'k'.




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