Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 13:38:57 -0600 From: Bob Van Valzah <Bob@Talarian.Com> To: SMP@FreeBSD.Org Subject: -CURRENT and -STABLE Cross Booting? Message-ID: <3C851ED1.4080703@Talarian.Com>
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[This isn't really an SMP question, but it is germane to the SMP testing
that I'm doing. I'm not clued into the booting differences between
-CURRENT and -STABLE, so I'd appreciate any pointers you might have.]
I hope to automate as much of the testing as possible. Ideally, I'd even
like to automate the booting of one machine into either the -CURRENT or
-STABLE branches. I have different disks and different slices for each
branch. Of course, I'd also like to be able to boot different kernels
within a branch so that the effect of WITNESS and other options can be
quantified and tracked over time.
I'm confident that I can figure out how to automatically futz
/boot/loader.conf to load different kernels within a branch. (Are there
any issues introduced by running from a kernel other than /kernel or
/boot/kernel/kernel?)
But I'm not aware of any way to script input to boot0. Hence booting one
branch or the other currently requires a console key press and so can't
be automated.
Is it possible to use /boot/loader from one branch to load a kernel from
a different branch on a different disk or slice? If so, what're the
issues involved in this.
Thanks,
Bob
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