Booting to CD and the handing off to HD

[Geert Hendrickx]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:58:05PM -0700, Cristobal Miguelo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm going to be working on a firewall box where I want to boot to CD
> and run an integrity check on the Hard Drive.  If the Hard Drive checks
> out OK, I want the CD to then hand off to the hard drive and boot the
> hard drive.
> 
> Is that possible?   What man pages and/or web pages should I read to
> make it happen?
> 
> Thanks!
> Cristobal

Maybe you could just put the entire thing on a livecd?  Your
config-files could be on a write-protected floppy-disk.  

I suggest you use ports/sysutils/freesbie to create your own custom
livecd, and make it do something like: 
mount -o ro /dev/fd0 /floppy
mount -t union /floppy /etc

GH

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:wq