Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 22:24:47 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: joelh@gnu.org (Joel Ray Holveck) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199812042024.WAA06187@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <863e6vvo4q.fsf@detlev.UUCP> from Joel Ray Holveck at "Dec 4, 98 11:00:05 am"
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Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > Regarding nextboot, I can't get your question into any kind of > > context, sorry. Is this just an entirely separate issue, or > > does "still works" relate to using FBSDBOOT versus not using > > FBSDBOOT in some way? > > This is a related but separate issue. Two or three messages ago, you > suggested that somebody write a Windows program that will either take > command line parameters or pop up a cute dialog box to let a user > select a BSD slice and kernel. Then this program would talk to the > boot blocks and tell it to boot into that kernel with those > parameters. After that, the program would reboot the system. > > It appears that the majority of people who want to use FBSDBOOT want > to do so in order to have an icon on their Windows desktop or their > start menu that would load FreeBSD. The others either don't have a > BSD partition or need a DOS driver to configure their hardware. If we > are bound and determined to drop support for the second category, then > perhaps we can keep support for the first. > > Now, one way to write this program immediately suggests itself to me. > Rewrite nextboot for Windows and put a GUI on it. Hence, my > question. I don't know any other way to talk to the boot manager, > although I'm open to suggestions. This approach hadn't occurred to me, though it does seem a reasonable idea, and quite possibly the best way to go about this. I like the concept of a method shared between Windows and BSD, not least because space is usually at a premium in the boot blocks. > I myself don't use Windows. I don't use FBSDBOOT. The box that has > both Windows and BSD on it has a partition manager. I won't be using > this silly icon. This thread started out as me trying to give a user > a simple solution to their problem, and now I'm to the point where by > golly, I'm gonna get *something* useful accomplished out of it. Yes, I've no special interest in this myself, except that it would be good to have it happen, since there evidently are various people who could make use of it. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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