Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 21:39:40 +0200 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95 Message-ID: <2336BE99-DEEA-4594-817B-76A6BC18C57A@grem.de> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> On 08 Apr 2015, at 21:30, Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 > No, this isn't a late April Fools joke. :( >=20 > 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. >=20 > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of bootin= g > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > We've discussed just switching hard drives, but we really want to shoot fo= r > a 100% automated process. Anybody have any ideas? What are you testing? The hardware this is running on? Your tests as well as= the OEM's? If not I would suggest booting FreeBSD and running win95 in qemu. A long time ago I dual booted BSD and DOS (or maybe it was OS/2 and Linux, i= t's been quite a while) and I did so by using two primary partitions, only m= arking one of them active/bootable at a time. You might be able to do the sa= me in an automated way on windows and FreeBSD to alternate between the OSes.= - Michael > _______________________________________________ > 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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