On Wednesday 16 Sep 2020, at 12:09, Martin Husemann wrote: > This works fine on e.g. sparc*; I can do: shutdown -b netbsd.t -r > now > > No state is modified on any disks, very convenient.
Right, not changing any state seems safer! > I don't know if there is enough of a persistent environment for UEFI > boots (I would guess there is), and probably no easy way for BIOS > boot. The machine in question is not UEFI, so I would be more interested in a pure BIOS solution.