From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Apr 21 11:52:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14925 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14766 for ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 18:51:24 GMT (envelope-from dag-erli@ifi.uio.no) Received: from hrotti.ifi.uio.no (2602@hrotti.ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.15]) by ifi.uio.no (8.8.8/8.8.7/ifi0.2) with ESMTP id UAA03654; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:51:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from dag-erli@localhost) by hrotti.ifi.uio.no ; Tue, 21 Apr 1998 20:51:08 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), lrios@ziplink.net, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Free BSD and Windows References: <199804211822.LAA27407@athena.tera.com> Organization: Gutteklubben Terrasse / KRST / PUMS / YASMW X-url: http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~dag-erli/ X-Stop-Spam: http://www.cauce.org From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) Date: 21 Apr 1998 20:51:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: Gary Kline's message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:22:49 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Gary Kline 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