Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:55:27 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, rnordier@nordier.com, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199811251255.OAA16516@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <50633.911996966@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 25, 98 04:29:26 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > I think that should be fairly simple to do. After all, IIRC, it has support > > for boot-out to DOS to run various games. One could probably use that feature > > Oh yeah? How about telling us how. :-) > > > Actually, speaking of win98 icons, the idea of using the umsdosfs idea from > > linux, or using OS/2 Extended Attribute files, to extend FAT to support the > > I'm still waiting for a umsdos implementation of some sort. After 3 > years, I'm not waiting too hard. :) Mike and I actually discussed both these topics at some length off the lists some months back, and decided on workable solutions. The preferred boot-from-windows solution entails doing a cold boot out of Windows and a partition manager modification (one reason for bringing boot0 into the tree) to allow the FreeBSD slice to be selected transparently. The umsdos solution was generalized to a file system layer approach which could accommodate a FreeBSD slice on any (not necessarily MS-DOS) file system which supports 255 character filenames. As with most things, the issues aren't really technical: the people doing the boot work just don't want this stuff badly enough to spend time making it happen (eg. I don't even have MS-DOS or Windows installed these days.) -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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