From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 5 9:11:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from www.crb-web.com (ns1.crb-web.com [209.70.120.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A840614EAE for ; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 09:11:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wayne@crb.crb-web.com) Received: (qmail 14028 invoked by uid 1001); 5 Jul 1999 16:24:02 -0000 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 12:24:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Wayne Cuddy Reply-To: wayne@crb-web.com To: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3780A3C8.DB04812A@cdsec.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote: > Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 14:23:36 +0200 > From: Graham Wheeler > To: Warner Losh > Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <199907031912.MAA01095@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes: > > : Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there. > > > > That's what he's doing right now... He doesn't want to keep doing > > this since it is such a PITA. > > > > However, other posters in the thread gave me enough hints that I think > > that I can help him make it work. LILO's trick of installing a small > > translating shim on INT 13 may be just the ticket... > > But how will he install LILO, if he only has Windoze and FreeBSD? > He could install Linux on his Windoze drive, get LILO bootstrapped, > and take it off again afterwards, but making any changes to the LILO > config will be tricky (I suppose he could make a bootable LINUX floppy). > If he wants to install the shim, it has to be resident on the drive > somewhere, but that's easy to sort out. It may be better to leave > the shim (any_d.b) on the FreeBSD partition - LILO relies on it being > at a known physical location on the disk. Under Windoze, if he ran disk > defragmenter, he could break the boot. Now that I think of it, I'm > probably lucky that I have never defragmented my Windoze drive or I > would most likely have broken my LILO. I have, it works fine. I believe that the defrag program is smart enough not to move those precious bytes from the beginning of the partition. Come to think of it, if it did the system might not boot even if one wasn't using LILO. > > -- > Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com > Cequrux Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 > Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 > Data/Network Security Specialists WWW: > http://www.cequrux.com/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message