From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Mar 7 18:51:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.whitebarn.com (Spin.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F6437B402 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:51:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from Talarian.Com (Chin.whitebarn.com [216.0.13.79]) by smtp.whitebarn.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA32218; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 20:51:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from Bob@Talarian.Com) Message-ID: <3C882712.3050307@Talarian.Com> Date: Thu, 07 Mar 2002 20:50:58 -0600 From: Bob Van Valzah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Barney Wolff , SMP@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -CURRENT and -STABLE Cross Booting? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message