Booting non-freebsd partition from loader(8)?

2004-02-09 Thread Peter Schmiedeskamp
Hello, I have a question that google seems to be unable to answer. My question: Is it possible to boot from a non-freebsd partition after loader(8) is already in memory? Ultimately, I would like to see the familiar boot menu (where Chuck gives me all sorts of options such as booting with and

Monolithic kernel possible in 5.2?

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Schmiedeskamp
Hello, I've been grappling with a problem I've got where my PXE booted kernel loads via TFTP and then fails to initialize the console. I verified that I do not have this problem under 4.9. I suspect that the pxeloader is incapable of loading the requisite kernel modules over the wire. So, I

Re: Monolithic kernel possible in 5.2?

2004-01-21 Thread Peter Schmiedeskamp
a reply back to this thread. Thanks again, Peter --- Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 11:38:17AM -0800, Peter Schmiedeskamp wrote: So, I know that FBSD 5 has moved to a modular kernel, but is it still possible to build a monolithic one? Yes. If so

PXE boot and no kernel/init messages

2004-01-19 Thread Peter Schmiedeskamp
Hello, I'm writing in hopes that someone will recognize the problem I'm seeing and point me in the right direction. I'm currently working on setting up a network booting environment similar to what is described in The Network People, Inc.'s FreeBSD 5 PXE boot recipe