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Date:      21 Apr 1998 20:51:07 +0200
From:      dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= )
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), lrios@ziplink.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Free BSD and Windows
Message-ID:  <xzpyawzhuuc.fsf@hrotti.ifi.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Gary Kline's message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:22:49 -0700 (PDT)"
References:  <199804211822.LAA27407@athena.tera.com>

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Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com> writes:
> 	I've been meaning to ask the entire group the following 
> 	questions(s) about OS bootloaders, since it seems that
> 	FBSD lacks a very powerful one.  How hard would it be
> 	for someone who understands this problem to write a loader
> 	that would be powerful and configurable?

Not at all. Been there, done that, it works. Tested with DOS, Windows
95, Windows NT, FreeBSD, and OS/2 IIRC. Don't want to release it the
way the code looks now though :)

> 	It probably requires an in-depth understanding of how PC's
> 	work with DOS; how the BIOS talks to the disk(s).  Writing
> 	a loader that worked with any PC-Unix would be a major win.

No, it's really not that complicated. Shouldn't be, at least.

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