From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 2 5:18:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from citadel.cdsec.com (citadel.cdsec.com [192.96.22.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E4F14D2A for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 05:18:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gram@cequrux.com) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by citadel.cdsec.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA16854 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 14:18:09 +0200 (SAST) Received: by citadel via recvmail id 16789; Fri Jul 2 14:17:29 1999 Message-ID: <377CAE83.EB1F7EF5@cdsec.com> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 14:20:19 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler Organization: Cequrux Technologies X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Porting LILO to FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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