From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 05:01:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA02237 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:01:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m2-59-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA02217 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 05:00:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id OAA16516; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:55:32 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199811251255.OAA16516@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-Reply-To: <50633.911996966@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 25, 98 04:29:26 am" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 14:55:27 +0200 (SAT) Cc: Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, rnordier@nordier.com, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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