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


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