Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 21:23:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Cristobal Miguelo <cristobalmiguelo2@yahoo.com> To: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting to CD and the handing off to HD Message-ID: <20041005042331.14030.qmail@web53801.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20041004163650.GM3633@gentoo-npk.bmp.ub>
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Thanks for the response! I would like to have it completely automated: The machine goes down at 4am for the check and boots to cd, then the cd controls the hand-off to the hard drive. I'd like to have the BIOS setup to only boot the cd and if the HD checks out ok, boot up the HD. That way there is a slim chance that any security breach will last beyond one night on my machine. I seriously doubt a security breach will occur, but I want to close every door imaginable. Anything else that could be done? Thx -C --- Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@ub.edu.bz> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote: > > Hello, > > > > 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. > > > > Is that possible? What man pages and/or web pages should I read > to > > make it happen? > > > > 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 > -- > PGP Public Key: pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD8527E49 > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
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