From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 18 01:18:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E2A10656E9 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:18:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C1408FC14 for ; Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:18:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.localnet (Inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n1I1IBtP033561 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:48:13 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Andriy Gapon Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:48:02 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: <200902171125.24160.nick@van-laarhoven.org> <200902172230.25492.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <499AA897.3020703@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <499AA897.3020703@icyb.net.ua> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1680878.qjYiq2xesd"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200902181148.10206.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 01:18:16 -0000 --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--