Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 16:35:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: additional boot stage? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970422162149.28321Y-100000@mail.cdsnet.net>
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Occasionally, it seems I'm having to work on machines that aren't close, and need a bit of kernel tweaking now and then... Something I was was thinking would be useful is to have a kernel boot path, or list of bootable kernels, or some mechanism such that if /kernel doesn't boot, /kernel.bak boots or some fallback mechanism. I was thinking it could be handled if /kernel loaded and tracked the bootedness or non-bootedness of the next kernel, it would be handy, w/o having to write/rewrite the bootblocks, which makes me nervous. Or something. It would be nice.
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