From owner-freebsd-small Thu Apr 5 2:57:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.182.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6233D37B446 for ; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 02:57:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ferdl@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at) Received: from sondermuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (IDENT:root@sondermuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.214.105]) by alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA164956; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:57:07 +0200 Received: from atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (root@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.214.101]) by sondermuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13903; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:57:46 +0200 Received: from localhost (ferdl@localhost) by atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05967; Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:57:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ferdl@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at) Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 11:57:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Ferdinand Goldmann To: Cc: , Luigi Rizzo , "E.B. Dreger" Subject: Re: PicoBSD & 1720K floppies In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. On Wed, 4 Apr 2001 dreamwvr@dreamwvr.com wrote: > Have you tried 'syslinux' it is a boot loader that might work for this > sort of situation ..? let me know as i have been wanting to try this for > a 'long' time TIA How is this supposed to work? From the syslinux documentation: SYSLINUX is a boot loader for the Linux operating system which operates off an MS-DOS/Windows FAT filesystem. It is intended to simplify first-time installation of Linux, and for creation of rescue- and other special-purpose boot disks. It seems to me that SYSLINUX can only operate on MS-DOS floppies, so it looks like it is useless in this case. Besides, the "not ufs" messages comes from the boot2 loader program, boot2.c: printf("Not ufs\n"); so changing the boot sector wont help here - right? Regards, Ferdinand To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message