From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 8 19:39:50 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 48B50649 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:39:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.grem.de (outcast.grem.de [213.239.217.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAA2BD95 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:39:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 93009 invoked by uid 89); 8 Apr 2015 19:39:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.250.192?) (mg@grem.de@185.17.207.96) by mail.grem.de with ESMTPA; 8 Apr 2015 19:39:40 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95 From: Michael Gmelin X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (12D508) In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 21:39:40 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <2336BE99-DEEA-4594-817B-76A6BC18C57A@grem.de> References: To: Ryan Stone Cc: FreeBSD Current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2015 19:39:50 -0000 > On 08 Apr 2015, at 21:30, Ryan Stone 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"=