From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 17:58:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCCEA16A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:58:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6A443D41 for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:58:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from garya@dreamchaser.org) Received: from [12.32.36.74] (imagination.dreamchaser.org. [12.32.36.74]) i9KHwPcl007381; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:58:25 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from garya@dreamchaser.org) Message-ID: <4176A742.7040006@dreamchaser.org> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:58:26 -0600 From: Gary Aitken User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cristobalmiguelo2@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.3 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [12.32.36.73]); Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:58:25 -0600 (MDT) cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 17:58:27 -0000 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? >