Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 19:08:35 -0600 From: Alan Weber <aaweber@austin.rr.com> To: Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loadlin style bootloader? Message-ID: <19990305190835.A17620@austin.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <19990305030624.A8238@ixion.honeywell.com>; from Shawn Leas on Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 03:06:24AM -0600 References: <19990304191652.A20126@ixion.honeywell.com> <19990304210530.C22633@winternet.com> <19990305030624.A8238@ixion.honeywell.com>
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On Fri, Mar 05, 1999 at 03:06:24AM -0600, Shawn Leas wrote: --> On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 09:05:30PM -0600, Nathan Ahlstrom wrote: --> > Shawn Leas <sleas@ixion.honeywell.com> wrote: --> > > I guess only one thing's stopping me. I need to be able to --> > > leave my MBR untouched. (Work PC) --> > > --> > > Is there any way to do that? --> > --> > I believe that leaving the MBR untouched is an option presented by --> > sysinstall. --> --> Only problem is booting at all, then. Any bootmgr screen will --> confuse the yokals enough that they'll wipe all my hard work --> off the hd. --> --> This is why loadlin is so nice. Use the ultimate stealth multiboot program, FDISK. Just set the partition you want to boot to active and reboot the computer. Your coworkers will never see any evidence of another operating system. You coworkers could still rescue the garbage partiton for you and return it to service for windows wiping out your freebsd partition. Your other alternative boot option is to come boot from a floppy. It seems to me that you are trying to circumvent an unauthorized software regulation. Any yokel that could reinstall windows would not be confused by a boot manager. -- When I was a kid I had to rub sticks together to multiply and divide numbers. A calculator was a job description. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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