Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > If he wants to install the shim, it has to be resident on the drive
> > somewhere, but that's easy to sort out. It may be better to leave
> > the shim (any_d.b) on the FreeBSD partition - LILO relies on it being
> > at a known physical location on the disk. Under Windoze, if
Wayne Cuddy wrote:
> > If he wants to install the shim, it has to be resident on the drive
> > somewhere, but that's easy to sort out. It may be better to leave
> > the shim (any_d.b) on the FreeBSD partition - LILO relies on it being
> > at a known physical location on the disk. Under Windoze, i
In message <3780a3c8.db048...@cdsec.com> Graham Wheeler writes:
: But how will he install LILO, if he only has Windoze and FreeBSD?
Actually, he's happily booting Win95 and OpenBSD now. He's using
radish which makes things just work. It did take some work getting
rid of vestages of a WinNT insta
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Graham Wheeler writes:
: But how will he install LILO, if he only has Windoze and FreeBSD?
Actually, he's happily booting Win95 and OpenBSD now. He's using
radish which makes things just work. It did take some work getting
rid of vestages of a WinNT install on the
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:23:36 +0200
> From: Graham Wheeler
> To: Warner Losh
> Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD
>
> Warner Losh wrote:
> >
> > In message <199907031912.maa01..
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:23:36 +0200
> From: Graham Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD
>
> Warner Losh wrote:
> >
Robert Nordier wrote:
> A Microsoft-style MBR gets the drive number from the byte at offset
> 0 of the partition entry (field dp_flag of structure dos_partition
> in /sys/sys/disklabel.h). This is usually known as the "active
> flag", and all standard fdisk utilities set this to 0x80 (correspondi
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <199907031912.maa01...@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
> : Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there.
>
> That's what he's doing right now... He doesn't want to keep doing
> this since it is such a PITA.
>
> However, other posters in t
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message
> Adrian Filipi-Martin writes:
> : The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> : booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
> : id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's
Robert Nordier wrote:
> A Microsoft-style MBR gets the drive number from the byte at offset
> 0 of the partition entry (field dp_flag of structure dos_partition
> in /sys/sys/disklabel.h). This is usually known as the "active
> flag", and all standard fdisk utilities set this to 0x80 (correspond
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
> : Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there.
>
> That's what he's doing right now... He doesn't want to keep doing
> this since it is such a PITA.
>
> However, other posters in the thread gave me e
Warner Losh wrote:
>
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adrian
>Filipi-Martin writes:
> : The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> : booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
> : id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Long ago I was a Linux hacker before converting to FreeBSD. I thought
> LILO was great and beat the heck out of FreeBSD's booteasy...
But now, we have the FreeBSD loader courtesy of the BTX toolchain and
the hard-working loader hackers :)
>
> -Archie
>
Warner Losh writes:
> In message <199907031912.maa01...@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
> : Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there.
>
> That's what he's doing right now... He doesn't want to keep doing
> this since it is such a PITA.
>
> However, other posters in the
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote:
> Long ago I was a Linux hacker before converting to FreeBSD. I thought
> LILO was great and beat the heck out of FreeBSD's booteasy...
But now, we have the FreeBSD loader courtesy of the BTX toolchain and
the hard-working loader hackers :)
>
> -Archie
>
Warner Losh writes:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
> : Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there.
>
> That's what he's doing right now... He doesn't want to keep doing
> this since it is such a PITA.
>
> However, other posters in the thread gave me eno
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes:
: Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there.
That's what he's doing right now... He doesn't want to keep doing
this since it is such a PITA.
However, other posters in the thread gave me enough hints that I think
that I can
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Graham Wheeler writes:
> : The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number
> : of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine
> : just don't cut it either, unfortunately.
>
> I have a friend that wants to boot FreeBSD on his
In message <199907031912.maa01...@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
: Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there.
That's what he's doing right now... He doesn't want to keep doing
this since it is such a PITA.
However, other posters in the thread gave me enough hints that
> In message <377cbe28.f3d4e...@cdsec.com> Graham Wheeler writes:
> : The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number
> : of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine
> : just don't cut it either, unfortunately.
>
> I have a friend that wants to boot FreeB
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Adrian
Filipi-Martin writes:
: The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
: booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
: id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's
: the only
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Graham Wheeler writes:
: The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number
: of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine
: just don't cut it either, unfortunately.
I have a friend that wants to boot FreeBSD on his IDE drive,
In message
Adrian Filipi-Martin writes:
: The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
: booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
: id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's
: the only thing that MS doesn'
In message <377cbe28.f3d4e...@cdsec.com> Graham Wheeler writes:
: The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number
: of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine
: just don't cut it either, unfortunately.
I have a friend that wants to boot FreeBSD on his ID
> I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the
> space used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it
> allows me to swap my C
> I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the
> space used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it
> allows me to swap my C:
> > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> > > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
> > > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's
> > > the only thing that MS doesn't do correctly whe inst
> > > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> > > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the
> > > "disk
> > > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk.
> > > That's
> > > the only thing that MS doesn't do corre
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> >
> >
> > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
> > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your s
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
> >
> >
> > The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> > booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
> > id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your se
Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
>
>
> The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
> id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's
> the only thing that MS doesn't do
Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote:
>
>
> The standard boot partition selection softwre also works fine
> booting windoze OS's from other disks. All you need to do is set the "disk
> id" in the DOS MBR to the correct number, 0x81 for your second disk. That's
> the only thing that MS doesn't do c
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I c
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I ca
Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the
Vince Vielhaber wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> > only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> > to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the s
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space
> used up by Linux. The reason I
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space
> used up by Linux. The reason I w
Hi all
I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space
used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it allows
me to swap my C:
Hi all
I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space
used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it allows
me to swap my C: a
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