Phil Kernick wrote:
> .byte os_bsd-. # BSD/OS
That one could be dumped aswell, couldn't it?
mkb.
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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Thu, 19 May 2005 19:19:59 +1000
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It would probably be possible to pad the available space with other
"common" partition types.
My proposal is this; don't change anything in the FreeBSD bootloader.
People who want a fancier / more
Hello Torfinn,
Thursday, May 19, 2005, 4:07:27 PM, you wrote:
TI> My proposal is this; don't change anything in the FreeBSD bootloader.
TI> People who want a fancier / more verbose / more readable boot menu - use
TI> another boot manager. There are enough of them.
Yes. GNU GRUB is perfect in thi
On Thu, 19 May 2005 19:19:59 +1000
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It would probably be possible to pad the available space with other
> "common" partition types.
My proposal is this; don't change anything in the FreeBSD bootloader.
People who want a fancier / more verbose / more readab
On Thu, 2005-May-19 09:29:25 +0100, Bob Bishop wrote:
>At 01:56 19/05/2005, Ian Dowse wrote:
>>[...]
>>BTW, one potential improvement to the current boot0 situation would
>>be to have boot0cfg dynamically generate the OS table based on what
>>partition types actually exist on the disk. [etc]
>
>Tha
At 01:56 19/05/2005, Ian Dowse wrote:
[...]
BTW, one potential improvement to the current boot0 situation would
be to have boot0cfg dynamically generate the OS table based on what
partition types actually exist on the disk. [etc]
That would be just plain unhelpful in the case where a partition gets
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Doug White writes:
>On Wed, 18 May 2005, Matthias Buelow wrote:
>> Obviously the Right Way of doing such things is to move this into the
>> 2nd stage boot loader... I can't think of any reason (except quick
>> hackery) why this hasn't been done that way. I mean, one
Doug White wrote:
> Then the space problem just migrates. There's a limited amount of space
> in the disklabel for bootblocks and I think we're pushing that.
Errm. /boot/loader doesn't reside in the 2nd stage, does it?
I mean, there is a boot menu (the Forth-run thing with the ASCII
daemon). If
On Wed, 18 May 2005, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> > The next release should:
> > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S,v
> [...]
>
> Obviously the Right Way of doing such things is to move this into the
> 2nd stage boot loader... I can't think of any reason (except
Dan Nelson wrote:
> The next release should:
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S,v
[...]
Obviously the Right Way of doing such things is to move this into the
2nd stage boot loader... I can't think of any reason (except quick
hackery) why this hasn't been done that way. I mean
On Wed, May 18, 2005 4:28 pm, Dan Nelson said:
> The next release should:
>
>
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S,v
>
>
> revision 1.14 date: 2005/02/08 20:43:04; author: des; state: Exp;
> lines: +2 -2
> Remove type 0x4 (FAT12 <32MB) to make room for type 0x7 (NTFS).
>
>
> re
On Wed, May 18, 2005 4:24 pm, Brooks Davis said:
> There isn't enough space to support all 256 partition types in the 512
> bytes of space available to the mbr. Fancy multi-sector options are
> available, but we don't provide them. Many people consider this a
> feature. :)
Well that sucks :P Ma
In the last episode (May 18), Mike Jakubik said:
> Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a
> ntfs partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ?
The next release should:
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/boot/i386/boot0/boot0.S,v
revision 1.14
date: 2005/0
On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 04:21:32PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a ntfs
> partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ?
There isn't enough space to support all 256 partition types in the 512
bytes of spa
Mike Jakubik wrote:
> Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a ntfs
> partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ?
no space (the code is in the 1st stage boot...)
mkb.
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Hello,
Could someone tell me why our bootloader still can not recognize a ntfs
partition, and report it as Windows instead of displaying "??" ?
Thanks.
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