Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 19:07:31 +0400 From: Rakhesh Sasidharan <rakhesh.s@gmail.com> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: Mark Ovens <marko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-5.3 from NTLDR Message-ID: <38b3f6e405020207077ab28401@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050202094847.GP8619@alzatex.com> References: <41FDEFE7.1090204@freebsd.org> <20050131103523.GC8619@alzatex.com> <41FE17A7.3030006@freebsd.org> <38b3f6e4050131074327d2e583@mail.gmail.com> <41FE578F.60706@freebsd.org> <38b3f6e405013122047a2b8206@mail.gmail.com> <20050201121049.GL8619@alzatex.com> <38b3f6e40502010704292f0b6a@mail.gmail.com> <38b3f6e405020107327b94bfd3@mail.gmail.com> <20050202094847.GP8619@alzatex.com>
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 01:48:47 -0800, Loren M. Lang <lorenl@alzatex.com> wrote: > Unless BootPart specifically know about how the freebsd boot loaders > work and how to reconize them, I doubt that it's modifying those > parameters. Now the last 66 bytes of the MBR stores the partition table > of the hard drive, it's possible that BootPart might try to modify that > as it's not part of the boot loader, but the boot loader uses that > information. Possible. I even checked BootPart's site and forums, but didn't find any mention that it is "FreeBSD-aware" etc. All they talk about is Windows and DOS and Linux. I had a good mind to sign up on the forums and ask the author -- but wasn't too keen on signing up and so left it. I know it modifies the bootsector some way, coz when I boot using the extracted file I get a message (and a second's pause) saying that this bootsector was extracted using BootPart blah blah ... -- -- Rakhesh rax -at- rakhesh -dot- com
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