From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 12:35:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B4E01065673 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:35:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 002648FC1D for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:35:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.localnet (ppp121-45-206-137.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.206.137]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1HC0QBT073364 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:30:27 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 22:30:11 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <200902171125.24160.nick@van-laarhoven.org> <499A9C47.4070602@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <499A9C47.4070602@icyb.net.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1727168.di1xEEb7LQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200902172230.25492.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Andriy Gapon , Nick Hibma Subject: Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:35:04 -0000 --nextPart1727168.di1xEEb7LQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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? =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1727168.di1xEEb7LQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJmqbN5ZPcIHs/zowRAq8GAKCIp0SnspRMWd9s4ufoFyz/Ov/dVgCbBSGy BtR/OXfqdOpWIYQ4psnQsVI= =V/yC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1727168.di1xEEb7LQ--