Date: Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:40:08 +0800 From: Fbsd1 <fbsd1@a1poweruser.com> To: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition Message-ID: <4B919658.1080306@a1poweruser.com> In-Reply-To: <201003051558.o25Fwu1U011756@dc.cis.okstate.edu> References: <201003051558.o25Fwu1U011756@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
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Martin McCormick wrote: > Fbsd1 writes: >> There is hard coded logic that is stopping you from doing what you want. >> Looks like you are SOL. > > Me thinks you are absolutely correct. I was only hoping > I was doing something wrong and a slight syntax change would > make it work. Thank you and thanks to Maciej Milewski <milu@dat.pl> > for his suggestion. > > I have one last trick up my sleve before giving up > completely on this idea. Maybe I can hijack one of the rc.x > scripts to cause it to spew a memory disk image of the mfsboot > code on to the freshly-unmounted /dev/ad0 device during a > reboot. Since the goal is to completely rebuild the system > anyway, this would be the last gasp of the present system as it > gets ready to reboot, hopefully with mfsbsd and all hard drives > dismounted. > > Martin McCormick > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > just dd the image to what ever drive you want
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