From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jul 3 12:16:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles534.castles.com [208.214.165.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADE214DD2 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:16:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01095; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 12:12:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199907031912.MAA01095@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Warner Losh Cc: Graham Wheeler , Vince Vielhaber , Graham Wheeler , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Jul 1999 01:30:38 MDT." <199907030730.BAA23514@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 12:12:01 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In message <377CBE28.F3D4E15A@cdsec.com> Graham Wheeler writes: > : The only reason I even want to do this is that I still have a number > : of old DOS games that won't work under Win95. And dosemu and Wine > : just don't cut it either, unfortunately. > > I have a friend that wants to boot FreeBSD on his IDE drive, or Win95 > on his SCSI drive. No, it isn't an option to swap them, so the SCSI > drive winds up being 'D'. The only way he can boot Win95 is to > completely disable the IDE drive from the BIOS' point of view :-(. > > Would osbs solve this problem, or would he have to take a look at > LILO? Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message