From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 15:41:18 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA91837B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:41:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cs.rpi.edu (mumble.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.8.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F3243E6E for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:41:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from crossd@cs.rpi.edu) Received: from odyssey.cs.rpi.edu (odyssey.cs.rpi.edu [128.213.12.47]) by cs.rpi.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA89200 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:41:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: from odyssey.cs.rpi.edu (crossd@localhost) by odyssey.cs.rpi.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id g93MfFw06292 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:41:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200210032241.g93MfFw06292@odyssey.cs.rpi.edu> X-Authentication-Warning: odyssey.cs.rpi.edu: crossd owned process doing -bs To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: boot/loader Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:41:15 -0400 From: "David E. Cross" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is it possible, using boot/loader, to boot to an arbitrary parition on a disk. Say a DOS parition? If it is, or this could be easily added to boot/loader (shouldn't be difficult, read in first sector to ADDRESS, jmp to it, right?) It would be hundreds of times better than boot0 in most cases. -- David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu Lab Director | Rm: 308 Lally Hall Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, | Ph: 518.276.2860 Department of Computer Science | Fax: 518.276.4033 I speak only for myself. | WinNT:Linux::Linux:FreeBSD To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message