Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 14:20:19 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Porting LILO to FreeBSD Message-ID: <377CAE83.EB1F7EF5@cdsec.com>
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Hi all I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it allows me to swap my C: and D: drives around when booting DOS. This lets me have Win95 bootable on my real C: drive, but lets me boot a Win95-free DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 on my D: drive, which gets logically mapped to C:. I haven't found any other freeware boot loaders that have this ability. Has anyone ever attempted to port LILO to FreeBSD? I imagine that it should be possible, but would require some serious changes in low-level disk access code, to map disk files to physical disk locations, etc. If anyone has any experience with this, or has any advice (including pointing me to other boot loaders that can get the BIOS to switch disks that will work purely from DOS or FreeBSD), please let me know... TIA gram -- Dr Graham Wheeler E-mail: gram@cequrux.com Cequrux Technologies Phone: +27(21)423-6065/6/7 Firewalls/Virtual Private Networks Fax: +27(21)24-3656 Data/Network Security Specialists WWW: http://www.cequrux.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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