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. -- Noone else has a .sig like this one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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