Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:23:17 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: mrcpu@cdsnet.net (Jaye Mathisen) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: additional boot stage? Message-ID: <199704230253.MAA18859@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970422162149.28321Y-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> from Jaye Mathisen at "Apr 22, 97 04:35:39 pm"
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Jaye Mathisen stands accused of saying: > > 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. NetBSD does this. > 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. The guys at Whistle have done this already; start with 'man nextboot'. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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