From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Mar 5 21:34:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 668FF37B400 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 21:34:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g265YQcR032934; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 00:34:26 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020306000857.A18255@tp.databus.com> References: <3C851ED1.4080703@Talarian.Com> <20020306000857.A18255@tp.databus.com> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 00:34:25 -0500 To: Barney Wolff , Bob Van Valzah From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: -CURRENT and -STABLE Cross Booting? Cc: SMP@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >On Tue, Mar 05, 2002 at 01:38:57PM -0600, Bob Van Valzah wrote: >> > > But I'm not aware of any way to script input to boot0. Hence > > booting one branch or the other currently requires a console > > key press and so can't be automated. I missed the beginning of this thread, but boot2 (I think it is) can read a file of commands from /boot/somewhere, and you COULD write a script to put commands in that file. Seems to me that you might be able to get what you wanted from that. I know that at one time I had mixed up some partitions on an install of mine, and I used to "boot up" my -stable partition, but I had that load in my -current system via this loader config file in my -stable system. Sorry this is so vague, but I only played with that loader config file the one time, and that was nearly a year ago. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message