Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 22:37:51 Andriy Gapon wrote: > 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 t

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread 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.

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
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)

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Andriy Gapon
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.

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Nick Hibma
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. Nick > I'd like to add an entry to my loader menu to load/execute memtest86 > instead of a kernel. It is built as standalone ELF executable, of course. > > Current

booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-16 Thread Andriy Gapon
I'd like to add an entry to my loader menu to load/execute memtest86 instead of a kernel. It is built as standalone ELF executable, of course. Currently I go to a loader prompt and do: > unload > load /boot/memtest86 > boot Where should I look to get this into the forth code? Suppose I want to e