Re: The BSDs

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Kegel
Alexander Langer wrote: Thus spake Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Maybe. Asking them never hurts. I wouldn't spend my time adding multiboot support to other bootloaders myself, though. As using the FreeBSD loader is just a very fine option, I actually don't see a requirement for this anyway

Re: The BSDs

2003-10-21 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Robert Millan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Maybe. Asking them never hurts. I wouldn't spend my time adding multiboot > support to other bootloaders myself, though. As using the FreeBSD loader is just a very fine option, I actually don't see a requirement for this anyways. Alex _

Re: The BSDs

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 12:33:40PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:05:48PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > > >>What about the BSDs implementing the Multiboot Specification? That > >>would be really nice IMHO. > > > > > >It would, but that requires that

Re: The BSDs

2003-10-21 Thread Dan Kegel
Robert Millan wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:05:48PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: What about the BSDs implementing the Multiboot Specification? That would be really nice IMHO. It would, but that requires that they migrate to GRUB as their bootloader. Really? Couldn't they just add multiboot

Re: The BSDs

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 07:05:48PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > What about the BSDs implementing the Multiboot Specification? That > would be really nice IMHO. It would, but that requires that they migrate to GRUB as their bootloader. And I don't think they're willing to maintain such changes

Re: The BSDs

2003-10-21 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:19:52PM +, Robert Millan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:02:22PM +0300, Samy Al Bahra wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what exactly do you guys need from the BSDs for full > > functionality? Please be specific to the three BSD projects > > as well. > > In more to les

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Re: The BSDs

2003-10-21 Thread Robert Millan
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:02:22PM +0300, Samy Al Bahra wrote: > Out of curiosity, what exactly do you guys need from the BSDs for full > functionality? Please be specific to the three BSD projects > as well. In more to less order of relevance: - UFS2. It's needed for FreeBSD 5.x but UFS2 is bei

The BSDs

2003-10-21 Thread Samy Al Bahra
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Re: Dos first drive overwritten?Sorted.

2003-10-21 Thread Declan. Moriarty
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 06:03:48PM +0100, Declan. Moriarty enlightened us thusly > I am sure you have come across this before: > > I installed grub - as per linuxfromscratch instructions, in the grub > shell > > root (hd0,1) > setup (hd0) > quit > > It wrote 15 sectors of e2fs on the firs