Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-07 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 06 March 2010 15:02:20 Martin McCormick wrote: Fbsd1 writes: just dd the image to what ever drive you want That is the goal. The challenge is to launch a script that detects when the boot device has been unmounted as dd will not work on an active file system. Martin it

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-06 Thread Martin McCormick
Fbsd1 writes: just dd the image to what ever drive you want That is the goal. The challenge is to launch a script that detects when the boot device has been unmounted as dd will not work on an active file system. Memory disk images apparently survive until reboot so there is a

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-05 Thread Martin McCormick
Fbsd1 writes: There is hard coded logic that is stopping you from doing what you want. Looks like you are SOL. Me thinks you are absolutely correct. I was only hoping I was doing something wrong and a slight syntax change would make it work. Thank you and thanks to Maciej Milewski

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-05 Thread Fbsd1
Martin McCormick wrote: Fbsd1 writes: There is hard coded logic that is stopping you from doing what you want. Looks like you are SOL. Me thinks you are absolutely correct. I was only hoping I was doing something wrong and a slight syntax change would make it work. Thank you and

Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I have hit one of these impenetrable walls in which nothing seems to work but I know it should. I have tried several versions of /boot.config to no avail. The idea is exactly the same principle as described in depenguinator which is software that lets one use grub in Linux to install FreeBSD on a

Re: Booting MFS from Secondary Partition

2010-03-04 Thread Fbsd1
Martin McCormick wrote: I have hit one of these impenetrable walls in which nothing seems to work but I know it should. I have tried several versions of /boot.config to no avail. The idea is exactly the same principle as described in depenguinator which is software that lets one use grub in