From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 24 02:19:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA01221 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:19:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA01160 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 02:19:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id JAA09560; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:28:42 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199809240728.JAA09560@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? To: drussell@saturn-tech.com (Doug Russell) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:28:42 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Doug Russell" at Sep 23, 98 09:59:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > You can BOOT FreeBSD (via NTLDR) off an NTFS parition. FreeBSD can't read > > > the NTFS filesystem, of course (yet!), but you can boot. I don't think > .. > > Actually, there is a R/O NTFS module for FreeBSD. See the list > > archives. ok, it is vmount-0.6a something... but the author's web site is unreachable at the moment. Does someone have a copy of this by chance ? (this does not solve my problem yet, but it is at least a starting point). One more question for those who have some knowledge of NTFS. Just how complex is to locate say one file in the root directory ? The idea would be have the boot block (512 bytes) locate and suck in a predefined file using BIOS calls, so the only problem would be to find out the parameters to pass to the bios. At the very extreme, these values could be hardwired into the boot sector using a program while running in NT itself, and then act at the next reboot ? cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message