> > Now, how can it be possible to understand your point (assuming the > installation on the hard disk is achieved): "What makes this funny ,, > different ,, if if I boot from the 2008 05 cd and select "boot from hard > disk" it boots the winxp disk perfectly". Well, well, ... >
Because the PC BIOS is idiotic. This whole problem is because of the way the PC BIOS works. The fact that the PC BIOS works at all is more luck than anything else. Why can't we have OBP on PCs? I'm sure (wishful thinking here) that it is possible to write a BIOS call emulation layer in forth. For reference purposes, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware _hartz -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20080831/c5cb5f15/attachment.html>
