Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 12:36:56 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95 Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmon=Y8wc1fp3_yx7ubzghrN6MHNyPxd=ORzNgEHbVR-n6A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, You can just write a little command line win32 program that writes to the boot blocks. it's win95; unless your BIOS somehow is blocking things you should be able to set the same area that boot0cfg does to tell the bootloader about what to do. -adrian On 8 April 2015 at 12:30, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote: > No, this isn't a late April Fools joke. :( > > I find myself in a situation where I need to integrate my employer's > manufacturing process with a third-party OEM's process. My employer's > hardware tests are all FreeBSD-based while the OEM is Windows 95 based. I > need to come up with a way to integrate them together. > > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting > into Win95, the OEM can do their thing, switch to booting FreeBSD, run our > tests and produce a .csv file with the results, and then boot back into > Win95 for them to finish up. Ideally we would like to switch the boot > slice without human interaction. > > I've been playing around with trying to set one only slice as active to > make the loader boot it, but it appears that doesn't actually work. > boot0cfg would cover half of the use case (switching from FreeBSD back to > Win95), but I'm not sure how I could do the original switch from Win95 to > FreeBSD. > > We've discussed just switching hard drives, but we really want to shoot for > a 100% automated process. Anybody have any ideas? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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