Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 13:39:03 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <199809232039.NAA03790@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Sep 1998 20:35:15 %2B0200." <199809231835.UAA07948@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > > I admit i want to make things difficult, because i cannot have a > > > FreeBSD partition on the disk so i need to boot a kernel from an > > > NTFS partition (not necessarily from NT, even from the boot manager > > > would do but i doubt i can load it!) > > > > Not really. Can you use a floppy? > > yes, but i'd rather not; booting a kernel from a floppy is slow as hell > and preparing them is also annoying Well, basically you're screwed. 8( AFAIK, the NT boot selector will only load one sector for you. There's not room in one sector to put enough code to read a file off an NTFS, so even if you were to use the new bootloader and wrote an NTFS module for it, you'd be stuck getting it loaded. If you can't have an FreeBSD filesystem on the machine, you must be planning to boot diskless, correct? Why not just boot the netboot.com binary on the floppy, and suck the kernel from your server as well? Or are you trying to load a picobsd kernel? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199809232039.NAA03790>