Pavel Roskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> menu.diff
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> More meaningful example for using "pause"
> Example on how to boot FreeBSD from BSD subpartitions
> Using (hd0,0) instead of (0x80,0) to avoid confusion. One could ask -
> why do Unices use hd0 whereas the OS'es from Redmond use 0x80 ?
> Removed specific versions of FreeBSD and Windows NT
> Added an example (commented out) how to boot DOS if NT is installed
The original use of this example was just to demonstrate the various
bits of available syntax. No conspiracy afoot here... ;)
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> nounzip.diff
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> To my great surprise, it takes so little to make decompression optional
This option to take out the decompression code was in the pre-GNU source
for the "stage 1.5" loader option, so it's unsurprising that this wasn't
a lot of work to add to the full "stage 2".
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