Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 10:36:50 -0600 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> To: Cristobal Miguelo <cristobalmiguelo2@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD Message-ID: <20041004163650.GM3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub> In-Reply-To: <20041004035805.51496.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041004035805.51496.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com>
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--bEAlbH1hodbw2omC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to CD > and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive. If the Hard Drive checks > out OK, I want the CD to then hand off to the hard drive and boot the > hard drive. >=20 > Is that possible? What man pages and/or web pages should I read to > make it happen? >=20 > Thanks! > Cristobal Well, you could certainly mount the harddisk partitions somewhere in the filesystem while running under the CDROM booted kernel. However, I seriously doubt if you could change the running kernel to that from the harddisk. Why not just reboot to the harddisk after you have finished your diagnostics with the CDROM? Nathan --=20 PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xD8527E49 --bEAlbH1hodbw2omC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBYXwhO0ZIEthSfkkRAoDSAJ9spEq+3WuUpKFUiXsTX9utYSdPtACfd0eU Az/oKF7ZGc0i4lCrQkIPK4o= =2g7X -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bEAlbH1hodbw2omC--
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