Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:58:26 -0600 From: Gary Aitken <garya@dreamchaser.org> To: cristobalmiguelo2@yahoo.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD Message-ID: <4176A742.7040006@dreamchaser.org>
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Cristobal, I may have missed some followups to this thread, hope this isn't redundant. If you copy /boot/boot1 to someplace like /root, chmod 500 to make it executable and do an exec /root/boot1 the system will reboot the hard drive, eleminating all bios checks for boot sequence and bypassing the cd boot preference. I haven't gone through a complete sequence of what you need to make this work (i.e. burning a cd, etc) What I have tested is: Dual boot system with microsoft boot loader, Windows 2000 on first partition FreeBSD 5.3b7 on second partition Boot FreeBSD single user exec /root/boot1 There may be all sorts of gotchas in this which you will have to work out, but I think it's a path that might work. Hope this helps Gary > I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to CD > and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard Drive checks > out OK, I want the CD to then hand off to the hard drive and boot the > hard drive. > > Is that possible? What man pages and/or web pages should I read to > make it happen? >
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