Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:23:47 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org> To: Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@engineer.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot Message-ID: <20110531072346.GA56848@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20110530174243.95200@gmx.com> References: <20110530174243.95200@gmx.com>
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--k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2011-May-30 17:42:39 +0000, Dieter BSD <dieterbsd@engineer.com> wrote: >A better approach is to be able to boot whatever slice you >want without having to change the active slice. > >NetBSD can do this. =A0The MBR puts up a menu of the bootable >slices on the disk being booted. =A0You can allow the timer >to time out and boot the default. =A0Or you can enter the number >of the slice you want to boot. =A0Or you can type a function key >F1 F2 ... to boot a different disk, and it will load the MBR >from that disk and run it. =A0There is an alternative for keyboards >without function keys. So can FreeBSD - though only for MBR - this functionality doesn't seem to have made it into the GPT bootcode. >And it works great. =A0Except that one of the 27 stages of boot >code that FreeBSD uses INSISTS on booting the active slice, >so you can tell the MBR to boot slice 3 and slice 3's boot >code sees that slice 4 is active and boots slice 4. Multibooting worked correctly when I last used it (a few years ago). Have you raised this as a PR? >RS-232 console + hardware modem + POTS =3D remote console And even that doesn't fully work unless you have a serial-aware BIOS. --=20 Peter Jeremy --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk3kl4IACgkQ/opHv/APuIeN9ACfdJwWxSOlKuosmbgIATQP+wKq YpMAoMFhfRyK4KobphuIXMYk+aXJzJcA =Duuz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k+w/mQv8wyuph6w0--
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