Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:40:49 +1000 From: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> To: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP; autoboot Message-ID: <4352C8E1.5090907@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20051016221757.25173ba2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20051016012933.GB31458@absinthe.tinho.net> <4351BBF3.8060003@freebsd.org> <20051016221757.25173ba2.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Hi Torfinn > This works good enough. What would be even better, would be a program > that, when launched from OS X, would restart the machine and boot > straight into FreeBSD. > > so, any ideas on how to do that? At one point I thought it would be possible for an OSX kext to load a FreeBSD kernel and jump to it ala the Linux two-kernel-monty, but FreeBSD requires a 'clean' system with OpenFirmware resident. Xnu blows away OpenFirmware early on in the boot sequence, so that's not possible. It could be done with a shell script that nvset's "boot-device" and "shutdown -r now", though that needs to be reversed when going FreeBSD->OSX. Some of the ppc Linuces have menus in the tbxi files that allow selecting between multiple o/s's - that's another approach. later, Peter.
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