Date: 10 Feb 2004 10:10:42 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Peter Schmiedeskamp <pschmied@yahoo.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting non-freebsd partition from loader(8)? Message-ID: <44n07ras25.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20040209230337.16887.qmail@web11604.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040209230337.16887.qmail@web11604.mail.yahoo.com>
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Peter Schmiedeskamp <pschmied@yahoo.com> writes: > Hello, I have a question that google seems to be > unable to answer. > > My question: Is it possible to boot from a non-freebsd > partition after loader(8) is already in memory? > Ultimately, I would like to see the familiar boot menu > (where Chuck gives me all sorts of options such as > booting with and without ACPI support) with another > option "Boot Windows from partition X." > > I understand this is a bit of an odd usage, so I'll > explain why I would like to do this rather than the > standard hard disk "F1 DOS", "F2 FreeBSD" method. > > I'm using a tftp-enabled pxeboot that boots a small > MFS-based freebsd. I would like to give users the > option of booting from the harddrive or booting from > the network. PC Bios screens are unfortunately rather > inconsistent and cumbersome to navigate. So, I would > like to always get a consistent boot menu from the > network. Getting this from the network allows me to > update this boot menu centrally. > > So, any thoughts? Is it possible to chain load > another operating system in this fashion? It's probably possible to write loader code to do that, but I don't believe that such code exists now.
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