booting/loading a tool, not kernel

[Daniel O'Connor]

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?

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