Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2000 19:28:15 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: How hard would it be... Message-ID: <200004100128.TAA15168@harmony.village.org>
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... to get FreeBSD to boot off a BSD partition that wasn't labeled as 0xa5? I'm looking for a way to create a disk that a certain picky BIOS will like and boot off of, and I think I have to create it with a certain ID and then it will be happy. I suspect that it involves hacking the boot blocks, the boot loader and the kernel's idea of the BSD partition number in disk*subr.c. Are there other things that are needed? I may be barking up the wrong tree in trying to get around this BIOS's pickiness, but I thought I'd at least ask. Yes, this is for a well-known, cheap internet device, which shall remain nameless. I've already OPENed mine up. a real lookER. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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