Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:09:29 +0100 From: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting multiple choice, and pause to read bootup info Message-ID: <20100622030929.2d2e0814@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <20100622011922.GA2317@auricle.charter.net> References: <20100622011922.GA2317@auricle.charter.net>
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On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:19:22 -0500 "J. Porter Clark" <jpc@porterclark.com> wrote: > 1. I'd like to be able to expand the list of choices in the > boot menu (the menu with single user mode, safe mode, etc.) to > include booting in any of several different environments, e.g., > home wired, home wireless, work wired, work wireless. Hacking > the FORTH code isn't entirely out of the question, but before > I even try it, I need to know how I could tell the system to > switch among different rc.conf files (if that's even possible) > from the loader. Offhand, I don't see a mechanism for doing so. > Cleverer ideas welcome. Perhaps you could have your menu in an rc script (or even auto-detect from one), and then have it touch a file or something to signal to other scripts. rc.conf is a shell script that sourced for each rc script so you could have entries like [ -f /tmp/home-wireless ] && enable_foo=yes to determine which daemons start.
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