- Original Message -
From: Chris Rees cr...@freebsd.org
To: rank1see...@gmail.com
Cc: John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org, hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:28:07 +
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
On 26 March 2012 18:10, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote
On Sunday, March 25, 2012 2:49:17 pm rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
After having a thought about this issue and also currently looking at a
BootEasy boot manager ...
'boot0cfg' is almost perfect for this task and should/could be exploited.
It's '-o noupdate' already does a major task, of
- Original Message -
From: John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc: rank1see...@gmail.com, hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:18:53 -0400
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
On Sunday, March 25, 2012 2:49:17 pm rank1see...@gmail.com wrote
On 26 March 2012 18:10, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
- Original Message -
From: John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Cc: rank1see...@gmail.com, hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:18:53 -0400
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
After having a thought about this issue and also currently looking at a
BootEasy boot manager ...
'boot0cfg' is almost perfect for this task and should/could be exploited.
It's '-o noupdate' already does a major task, of keeping main slice active.
Now all we need is a flag, through which we
On 2011-May-30 17:42:39 +, 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
On Monday, May 30, 2011 1:42:39 pm Dieter BSD wrote:
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.
There
Peter writes:
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
Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote:
If you neglected to specify RS-232 console in the requirements,
there is this thing. ??I haven't tried it.
http://www.realweasel.com/
Heard of it, aka the PC Weasel. I've never actually seen one. They
have been around for a while; the original --
I have i.e; 3 slices, of which first is active.
Now I wana set slice 2 active, but only for a one/next boot.
Once slice 2 is booted and system is shutdown or rebooted,
once again, first slice is active and booted, without user's intervention.
I think that setting the active slice is the wrong
- Original Message -
From: Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org
To: rank1see...@gmail.com
Cc: hack...@freebsd.org, Doug Ambrisko ambri...@freebsd.org
Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 11:07:05 -0700
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
On 5/28/11 6:06 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote
On 5/27/11 11:34 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org
To: rank1see...@gmail.com
Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 +
Subject: Re: Active slice, only
: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 +
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
On Fri May 27 11, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
Idea is ...
I have i.e; 3 slices, of which first is active.
Now I wana set slice 2 active, but only for a one/next boot.
Once slice 2 is booted and system
And how about this:
# boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1
Now when you choose to hit slice 2, it is only for a this one boot.
Next and each boot, defaults to slice 1
Problem is, that you must see, early bootstrap, to manually choose, so this
won't work on a remote server.
This requires:
a) physicall
On 5/28/11 6:06 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
And how about this:
# boot0cfg -o noupdate -s 1
Now when you choose to hit slice 2, it is only for a this one boot.
Next and each boot, defaults to slice 1
Problem is, that you must see, early bootstrap, to manually choose, so this
won't work
-
From: Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org
mailto:arun...@freebsd.org
To: rank1see...@gmail.com mailto:rank1see...@gmail.com
Cc: hack...@freebsd.org mailto:hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 +
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
On Fri May 27 11, rank1see
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From: Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org
mailto:arun...@freebsd.org
To: rank1see...@gmail.com mailto:rank1see...@gmail.com
Cc: hack...@freebsd.org mailto:hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 +
Subject: Re: Active slice, only
Idea is ...
I have i.e; 3 slices, of which first is active.
Now I wana set slice 2 active, but only for a one/next boot.
Once slice 2 is booted and system is shutdown or rebooted, once again, first
slice is active and booted, without user's intervention.
Is this possible or should be
On Fri May 27 11, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
Idea is ...
I have i.e; 3 slices, of which first is active.
Now I wana set slice 2 active, but only for a one/next boot.
Once slice 2 is booted and system is shutdown or rebooted, once again, first
slice is active and booted, without user's
- Original Message -
From: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org
To: rank1see...@gmail.com
Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 +
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
On Fri May 27 11, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
Idea is ...
I have i.e; 3 slices
On 27 May 2011 17:47, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org
To: rank1see...@gmail.com
Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 +
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
On Fri May 27 11, rank1see
On May 27, 2011, at 10:47 AM, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org
To: rank1see...@gmail.com
Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 13:47:54 +
Subject: Re: Active slice, only for a next boot
On Fri May 27 11
, only for a next boot
On Fri May 27 11, rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
Idea is ...
I have i.e; 3 slices, of which first is active.
Now I wana set slice 2 active, but only for a one/next boot.
Once slice 2 is booted and system is shutdown or rebooted, once again,
first slice is active and booted
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