Re: how to load alternative kernel on bootloader?

Yeah, it could be a little more discoverable.  I only knew it was possible 
because I happened to see some reference to it somewhere, perhaps way back 
in an ancient mailing list thread.

David Ross
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2009 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: how to load alternative kernel on bootloader?


>> Yeah, there's a key you can press (right-Shift? Alt?) that will bring up 
>> the
>> bootloader prompt on startup.  Then you can load /foo instead of /netbsd.
>
> Ah, yes, I have noticed Alt makes the machine boot TOS,
> but I have not tried Right-Shift. I should have read boot(8)
> man page first, but I'll add it in FAQ.
>
> BTW, is it worth to add some explicit prompt like
> "hit any key to abort autoboot" as i386 during boot?
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>