Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:07:51 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel Message-ID: <499AA897.3020703@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <200902172230.25492.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200902171125.24160.nick@van-laarhoven.org> <499A9C47.4070602@icyb.net.ua> <200902172230.25492.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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on 17/02/2009 14:00 Daniel O'Connor said the following: > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:45:19 Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 17/02/2009 12:25 Nick Hibma said the following: >>> You are aware of nextboot(8)? That you could use to specify the 'kernel' >>> to load on next boot. >>> >>> Also boot.config(5) might be of use. >> Thanks a lot, these are very useful. >> But I am still thinking about an interactive menu where I could e.g. >> press '9' to go to "Utilities" and then could select memtest86 or >> memtest2009 or cputest :-) > > That would be very handy IMO. > > What file do you use to run memtest etc? > Stephan Eisvogel shared his work on memtest86+ for FreeBSD. https://www.seitics.de/?e=47 I am now trying to make a minimalistic port out of his work. I mean - all the features that he added are very useful, but I want to get "official" memtest86+ and/or memtest86 ported with minimal changes. -- Andriy Gapon
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