booting/loading a tool, not kernel
Andriy Gapon
avg at icyb.net.ua
Tue Feb 17 04:08:26 PST 2009
on 17/02/2009 14:00 Daniel O'Connor said the following:
> On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:45:19 Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 17/02/2009 12:25 Nick Hibma said the following:
>>> You are aware of nextboot(8)? That you could use to specify the 'kernel'
>>> to load on next boot.
>>>
>>> Also boot.config(5) might be of use.
>> Thanks a lot, these are very useful.
>> But I am still thinking about an interactive menu where I could e.g.
>> press '9' to go to "Utilities" and then could select memtest86 or
>> memtest2009 or cputest :-)
>
> That would be very handy IMO.
>
> What file do you use to run memtest etc?
>
Stephan Eisvogel shared his work on memtest86+ for FreeBSD.
https://www.seitics.de/?e=47
I am now trying to make a minimalistic port out of his work.
I mean - all the features that he added are very useful, but I want to
get "official" memtest86+ and/or memtest86 ported with minimal changes.
--
Andriy Gapon
More information about the freebsd-hackers
mailing list