Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:17:49 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passwording boot loader. (fwd) Message-ID: <393C270D.5BACA487@asme.org> References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006051709160.12692-100000@brunel.uk1.vbc.net>
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sys transfers the systems files, I think he was referring to fdisk /MBR
.
FWIW, You could've just set the winbloze partition as the active one
with fdisk. That's what I did to boot FreeBSD/Windows on my old 486 that
wanted this special MBR (DDO) or it wouldn't recognize the hard disk.
Nowadays I use OS/2's partition manager, and contrary to MS's efforts it
works fine if you leave W98 in the partition that immediately follows
the first one (owned by OS/2 Boot Manager).
cheers,
Pedro.
Lloyd Rennie wrote:
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:02:28 +0100
> From: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
> To: Lloyd Rennie <lloyd@vbc.net>
> Subject: Re: Passwording boot loader.
>
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:49:24PM +0100, Lloyd Rennie wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> >
> > > There appears to be some code in the /boot/support.4th file to force
> > > the user to enter a password at kernel load time. Does anyone know
> > > enough forth to tell me how to activate it?
> > >
> > > I've got Sony picking up my laptop any minute now and I want to
> > > disable FreeBSD :(
> >
> > If it's dual-boot, drop into Windoze and
> >
> > sys c:
> >
> > This will overwrite the MBR, and only Windows will bo bootable. When you
> > get it back you'll have to boot it with a bootdisk and rewrite it.
>
> Thanks Lloyd, I've done just that with sysinstall.
>
> Joe
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