Re: Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-16 Thread Andrew Boyer
On Dec 16, 2011, at 4:18 PM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, December 16, 2011 11:02:20 am Andrew Boyer wrote: >> >> On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:21:51PM -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote: These two changes allow you to set PXE as the default M

Re: Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-16 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday, December 16, 2011 11:02:20 am Andrew Boyer wrote: > > On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:21:51PM -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote: > >> These two changes allow you to set PXE as the default MBR boot selection, which enables you to write a 'reboot

Re: Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-16 Thread Andrew Boyer
On Dec 16, 2011, at 9:52 AM, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:21:51PM -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote: >> These two changes allow you to set PXE as the default MBR boot selection, >> which enables you to write a 'reboot to the network' script. We've found it >> to be very useful. Wha

Re: Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-16 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 04:21:51PM -0500, Andrew Boyer wrote: > These two changes allow you to set PXE as the default MBR boot selection, > which enables you to write a 'reboot to the network' script. We've found it > to be very useful. What do people think? seems good to me. John's comments a

Re: Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-16 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, December 15, 2011 4:21:51 pm Andrew Boyer wrote: > These two changes allow you to set PXE as the default MBR boot selection, which enables you to write a 'reboot to the network' script. We've found it to be very useful. What do people think? I think these are good. One suggestion

Re: Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-16 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Den 15/12/2011 kl. 22.21 skrev Andrew Boyer: > These two changes allow you to set PXE as the default MBR boot selection, > which enables you to write a 'reboot to the network' script. We've found it > to be very useful. What do people think? I think this is very useful for e.g. re-installing

Re: Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-15 Thread Andrew Boyer
On Dec 15, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > Hi, > > This is interesting. I wrote some newer documentation for PXE booting > here: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-pxe-nfs.html > > In 32.8.4, bullet item 1, I mentioned that it is necessary to > configure network booting in

Re: Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-15 Thread Craig Rodrigues
Hi, This is interesting. I wrote some newer documentation for PXE booting here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/network-pxe-nfs.html In 32.8.4, bullet item 1, I mentioned that it is necessary to configure network booting in the BIOS menu. With your change, is entering the BIOS menu to confi

Idea for change to boot0

2011-12-15 Thread Andrew Boyer
These two changes allow you to set PXE as the default MBR boot selection, which enables you to write a 'reboot to the network' script. We've found it to be very useful. What do people think? Thanks, Andrew > Index: usr.sbin/boot0cfg/boot0cfg.c > ===