Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:48:02 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel Message-ID: <200902181148.10206.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <499AA897.3020703@icyb.net.ua> References: <200902171125.24160.nick@van-laarhoven.org> <200902172230.25492.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <499AA897.3020703@icyb.net.ua>
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--nextPart1680878.qjYiq2xesd Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-u" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 17 February 2009 22:37:51 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 17/02/2009 14:00 Daniel O'Connor said the following: > > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:45:19 Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 17/02/2009 12:25 Nick Hibma said the following: > >>> You are aware of nextboot(8)? That you could use to specify the > >>> 'kernel' to load on next boot. > >>> > >>> Also boot.config(5) might be of use. > >> > >> Thanks a lot, these are very useful. > >> But I am still thinking about an interactive menu where I could e.g. > >> press '9' to go to "Utilities" and then could select memtest86 or > >> memtest2009 or cputest :-) > > > > That would be very handy IMO. > > > > What file do you use to run memtest etc? > > Stephan Eisvogel shared his work on memtest86+ for FreeBSD. > https://www.seitics.de/?e=3D47 Thanks. > I am now trying to make a minimalistic port out of his work. > I mean - all the features that he added are very useful, but I want to > get "official" memtest86+ and/or memtest86 ported with minimal changes. Yes, it would be very useful IMO. If you have the loader look for extra stuff in some directory under /boot t= hen=20 other things could be added as ports without requiring changes to the loade= r=20 each time. Although, just a fixed test for memtest would be fantastic :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1680878.qjYiq2xesd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJm2HL5ZPcIHs/zowRAh3gAJ4oWKp5H/2tl6s5ZdURQuz7VbJyhwCgnZxA BSXIe+j0I1ar+GGu20XpK5g= =UxPb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1680878.qjYiq2xesd--
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