Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:30:11 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua>, Nick Hibma <nick@van-laarhoven.org> Subject: Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel Message-ID: <200902172230.25492.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <499A9C47.4070602@icyb.net.ua> References: <200902171125.24160.nick@van-laarhoven.org> <499A9C47.4070602@icyb.net.ua>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJmqbN5ZPcIHs/zowRAq8GAKCIp0SnspRMWd9s4ufoFyz/Ov/dVgCbBSGy BtR/OXfqdOpWIYQ4psnQsVI= =V/yC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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