From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 24 15:35:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01147 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:35:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01133 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:35:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA10635; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:35:06 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd010560; Thu Sep 24 15:34:57 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA10700; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 15:34:51 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809242234.PAA10700@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 22:34:51 +0000 (GMT) Cc: drussell@saturn-tech.com, tlambert@primenet.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809240728.JAA09560@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Sep 24, 98 09:28:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 ? It's not hard. > 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. A better way would be to modify the FreeBSD boot blocks to read NTFS instead of UFS. Note that the use of the NT boot loader simplifies this, since it can have a very large boot image that it loads from (see the handbook). The real pain here is that FreeBSD won't boot on a pure read-only file store without modification (the existance of which was posted about several times by the ROM/FLASH people). For writing, there are VFS changes needed, and you have to be careful to construct the logs *exactly* the right way; this isn't too hard to infer, but it's work (the great crystalline entity, with whom I've learned to communicate...). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message