Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 20:50:58 -0600 From: Bob Van Valzah <Bob@Talarian.Com> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, SMP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT and -STABLE Cross Booting? Message-ID: <3C882712.3050307@Talarian.Com> References: <p05101518b8adc8fdf596@[128.113.24.47]>
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The bootcfg command sounds very promising, but I can't find it command
anywhere in FreeBSD. No mention of it on the mailing lists either. I see
a bootcfg command in Windows XP, but it doesn't seem to futz with the MBR.
Can you please give me a little more to go on?
Stumped but optimistic,
Bob
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>> 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.
>
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