Cristobal,
I may have missed some followups to this thread, hope this isn't redundant.
If you copy /boot/boot1 to someplace like /root, chmod 500 to make it executable and do an exec /root/boot1 the system will reboot the hard drive, eleminating all bios checks for boot sequence and bypassing the cd boot preference.
I haven't gone through a complete sequence of what you need to make this work (i.e. burning a cd, etc) What I have tested is:
Dual boot system with microsoft boot loader, Windows 2000 on first partition FreeBSD 5.3b7 on second partition
Boot FreeBSD single user exec /root/boot1
There may be all sorts of gotchas in this which you will have to work out, but I think it's a path that might work.
Hope this helps
Gary
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?
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