Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:50:55 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, Bob Van Valzah <Bob@Talarian.Com> Cc: SMP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT and -STABLE Cross Booting? Message-ID: <p05101518b8adc8fdf596@[128.113.24.47]>
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>At 12:34 AM -0500 3/6/02, Garance A Drosihn wrote: >>On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:38:57PM -0600, Bob Van Valzah wrote: >>> >> > 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. > >I missed the beginning of this thread, but boot2 (I think it >is) can read a file of commands from /boot/somewhere, and you >COULD write a script to put commands in that file. Seems to >me that you might be able to get what you wanted from that. By sheer coincidence, someone also recently pointed me at the 'bootcfg' command. If you're daring, you could maybe use this to switch between which partition boot0 will chose by default. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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