Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Hello, I am looking for a way to add memtest86 to the FreeBSD bootloader so that my techs can easily test RAM when needed. From what I understand, the memtest86 build script makes two objects: 1) a linux-kernel-alike image. 2) an ELF object.

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:43:02AM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: Hello, I am looking for a way to add memtest86 to the FreeBSD bootloader so that my techs can easily test RAM when needed. From what I understand, the memtest86 build script makes two objects: 1) linux-kernel-alike image. 2) an

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Dan Kilbourne
Nathan Kinkade extolled: I would agree, but I am looking for more of an out of the box solution. We have a couple thousand servers, several hundred of them running FreeBSD. I want our build team to be able to simply install memtest as a bootloader option so that any time a machine needs to be

Re: Adding non-kernels to boot-loader

2004-11-11 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 12:35:26PM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: Nathan Kinkade extolled: You will probably have better luck using a more flexible boot loader like GRUB. How about just putting memtest86 on a floppy or CDROM and your techs can boot to the removable media whenever they need