begging pardon, but how, precisely, does one boot from an alternate
partition (-by default!-)?  i386 platform.

We really ought to find somewhere to stash some startup parameters for
the boot program to look at when it boots, so things like reboot -- -s
can work in a MI fashion.

...or have we already percussed this deceased equine?


				--*greywolf;
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Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology",
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.