> Hi Hi > Im trying to find a way to do a sort of very soft reboot. For example I > want to boot up the computer into a kernel on one drive, and then after > saying reboot, the computer loads up a kernel from a second drive.
forget about pc then move onto Sun and the like eeprom boot-device diskN< where your os resides > I have gotten this to work with the use of a file to pass information > between boots, but that is not an ideal solution. What I really want is > either a way to pass a parameter to the BIOS so that it can pass it to > boot upon restarting, or a way to reload the boot loader into memory and > then execute it. eeprom boot-file mykernel > It would even be fine to use another operating system on the first boot. > So it boots up into say Gentoo, and then when Im done with that, I want > to load OpenBSD. > > Does anybody have an idea how I can approach this? Not on a pc ...
