On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Lt Avram Dorfman wrote:

> I suppose I'm dreaming, but is there any chance I can just plain install 
> 1.2 pretending that /u1 is /, and then mount my g partition as / and my 
> a partition as /junk? /u1 doesn't have any OS stuff on it, just user 
> accounts.
> 
> Or is it truely impossible for the system to boot from a non-a partition?

It's not impossible, but you'll need a custom kernel that expects to see
root on the `g' partition instead of the `a' partition.

--scott