On 2011-May-30 17:42:39 +0000, Dieter BSD <dieter...@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. The MBR puts up a menu of the bootable >slices on the disk being booted. You can allow the timer >to time out and boot the default. Or you can enter the number >of the slice you want to boot. Or 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. There 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. Except 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 = remote console And even that doesn't fully work unless you have a serial-aware BIOS. -- Peter Jeremy
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