Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2015 10:31:29 +0200 From: Lars Engels <lars.engels@0x20.net> To: Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95 Message-ID: <20150409083129.GS20473@e-new.0x20.net> In-Reply-To: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAFMmRNw=2fXw4ohn%2BxetuQtESEvMnmrNONi093Sz3FY2rQiAdQ@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Ryan Stone 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? Maybe you can make use of the GAG boot manager? I don't know if you can make changes what partition gets booted next out of a running OS. http://gag.sourceforge.net [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQF8BAEBCgBmBQJVJjjhXxSAAAAAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ4RjQwMDE3RTRERjUzMTI1N0FGRTUxNDlF NTRDQjM3RDNBMDg5RDZEAAoJEOVMs306CJ1tcfcIAKdLrS8l95HiFMT6gWSZ5nYW j6WLnMXrMa7InQfUwwKBvcvlEaYKiuJsiK5dwecRdtM5IJXwV9e7MCJnbvNHkffg nnfieOEcgOxpLxXdqM0ytAzgsbHVyhjsI1gNovDsN1s7g8Cn/yPP7RwuCZtZDYw0 Xuht6fK9+Rs2bzr+VjRiIih+p54mktLwLWiWN9nbXYIDqYjBV1wsvdk75dsxJwfj B/aviSB4jQ5w8DAb3wQgsRHus1WaK4d8FHSSlatnuMOsXJlSIrZJMl6YsuPbtMQA Da5LRIRAQcmnIiEI+eViC++VcVvfOv1HhGSxN7ThJuIcwMj+CeonmkUrtSA5AH0= =7xU8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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