Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-09 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 11:13:58AM +, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > > > > > I've been playing around with trying to set one only slice as active to > > > make the loader boot it, but i

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-09 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > > > I've been playing around with trying to set one only slice as active to > > make the loader boot it, but it appears that doesn't actually work. > > boot0cfg would cover half of the us

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-09 Thread Lars Engels
e tests are all FreeBSD-based while the OEM is Windows 95 based. I > need to come up with a way to integrate them together. > > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting > into Win95, the OEM can do their thing, switch to booting FreeBSD, run

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-09 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > I've been playing around with trying to set one only slice as active to > make the loader boot it, but it appears that doesn't actually work. > boot0cfg would cover half of the use case (switching from FreeBSD back to > Win95), but I'm

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
... why's stuff have to be complicated? Win95 has minimal if any boot sector protection. Just go look at what boot0cfg does, figure out which sector you have to read/modify/write, and do that. Of course, I'd also check first to ensure it's updating a freebsd bootblock, or you may render a non-dua

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 12:30 PM, Ryan Stone wrote: > > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting > Wow, I like your problem. It's really weird, and I like weird problems. :) Since you are looking at automating a complicated process, he

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 08:09:42PM +, Marcin Cieslak wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > > 4. (optional) create windows95 boot.ini for fail back load FreeBSD > > http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/15799

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 03:30:41PM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: > 4. (optional) create windows95 boot.ini for fail back load FreeBSD http://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/157992 I think boot.ini comes with ntldr, and Win95/98 started DOS-like.. //Marc

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Slawa Olhovchenkov
e tests are all FreeBSD-based while the OEM is Windows 95 based. I > need to come up with a way to integrate them together. > > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting > into Win95, the OEM can do their thing, switch to booting FreeBSD, run

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Oliver Pinter
th a third-party OEM's process. My employer's > hardware tests are all FreeBSD-based while the OEM is Windows 95 based. I > need to come up with a way to integrate them together. > > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting >

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Michael Gmelin
tests are all FreeBSD-based while the OEM is Windows 95 based. I > need to come up with a way to integrate them together. > > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting > into Win95, the OEM can do their thing, switch to booting FreeBSD, run

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Adrian Chadd
ws 95 based. I > need to come up with a way to integrate them together. > > We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting > into Win95, the OEM can do their thing, switch to booting FreeBSD, run our > tests and produce a .csv file with t

Re: Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Marcin Cieslak
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015, Ryan Stone wrote: > No, this isn't a late April Fools joke. :( > > > We've discussed just switching hard drives, but we really want to shoot for > a 100% automated process. Anybody have any ideas? I guess due to hardware interfacing virtualization is not an option? I've see

Dual booting FreeBSD and Win95

2015-04-08 Thread Ryan Stone
h a way to integrate them together. We're looking at dual-booting FreeBSD and Win95. We're thinking of booting into Win95, the OEM can do their thing, switch to booting FreeBSD, run our tests and produce a .csv file with the results, and then boot back into Win95 for them to finish