From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 11 17:35:29 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 52B7E16A4CE for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:35:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from net.netophilia.net (ns.netophilia.net [66.96.216.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2423243D46 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:35:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd-lists@netophilia.net) Received: by net.netophilia.net (Postfix, from userid 1005) id 9EABD114CC; Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:35:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 12:35:26 -0500 From: Dan Kilbourne To: Nathan Kinkade Message-ID: <20041111173526.GA22779@netophilia.net> References: <20041111164302.GA22697@netophilia.net> <20041111171906.GG17779@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041111171906.GG17779@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> Organization: netophilia.net Visit: http://netophilia.net User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader 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: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 17:35:29 -0000 Nathan Kinkade extolled: I would agree, but I am looking for more of an out of the box solution. We have a couple thousand servers, several hundred of them running FreeBSD. I want our build team to be able to simply install memtest as a bootloader option so that any time a machine needs to be tested, it can be without having to be removed from the rack. Currently we install the kernel-image-like version of it on all of our Linux boxen with no problems, I just need to figure out how to do it for FreeBSD. As for removable media, our machines are not built with CDs or floppies - everything is generally done via a network installer we have hooked up, so removable media is not an option. > You will probably have better luck using a more flexible boot loader > like GRUB. How about just putting memtest86 on a floppy or CDROM and > your techs can boot to the removable media whenever they need to test > memory. This approach seems much more flexible, as any machine can then > be used for tests instead of only the ones on which you have made > special configurations. > > Nathan > -- > PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49 -- ___ Dan