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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 21:18:54 +0530
From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: using beastie.4th to alternate boot i386 / amd64
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> I'm trying to get beastie.4th to allow me to select either
> amd64 or i386 as my running system. I can get this to happen
> from the boot loader using:

> set currdev=3Ddisk1s1d
> set rootdev=3Ddisk1s1d
> unload
> load /boot/kernel/kernel
> load /boot/kernel/acpi.ko
> load /boot/kernel/hptmv.ko
> boot

If you are looking for a way to manage i386/amd64 dual
booting, the you can just interrupt the boot sequence at the=20
boot: prompt and then load /boot/loader itself from the=20
appropriate root partition.  You can specify a 'default'
in file /boot.config in the disk's 'a' partition.

Using FORTH would allow for a nice menu though :).

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