From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 6 06:20:22 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA23758 for current-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 06:20:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA23737; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 06:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id WAA08867; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 22:50:02 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708061320.WAA08867@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: modifying boot mgrs FROM FREEBSD In-Reply-To: <19970806075054.63235@ct.picker.com> from Randall Hopper at "Aug 6, 97 07:50:54 am" To: rhh@ct.picker.com (Randall Hopper) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 22:50:01 +0930 (CST) Cc: ggm@connect.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Randall Hopper stands accused of saying: > George Michaelson: > |So how can you tune the bootmgrs from within FreeBSD? Sure, lotsa recipes "tune"? Can you be more specific? > One thing you might look at is running these DOS multiboot utilities in > FreeBSD inside PCEmu or DOSCMD. If the bootmanager uses the BIOS to do all > its reading and writing, and if those ISRs are emulated correctly, it just > might work. For obvious reasons, none of the DOS emulators allow the emulated process direct access to the disk. ie. No, it won't work. ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[