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 he
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 he ran
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 second
Warner Losh wrote:
In message pine.bsf.4.05.9907021107080.24927-100...@thneed.ubergeeks.com
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
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 the thread
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 (corresponding
On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:23:36 +0200
From: Graham Wheeler g...@cequrux.com
To: Warner Losh i...@harmony.village.org
Cc: hack...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD
Warner Losh wrote:
In message 199907031912.maa01
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
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 thread
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
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 [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 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 IDE
In message pine.bsf.4.05.9907021107080.24927-100...@thneed.ubergeeks.com
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
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
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 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 want
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 space
used
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:
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 want
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 space
used
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 can free up
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
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 second disk.
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 installing
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: and
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