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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD 
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Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 13:15:22 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <199907031912.MAA01095@dingo.cdrom.com> Mike Smith writes:
: Neither; he'll have to tell the BIOS that the drive's not there.

That's what he's doing right now...  He doesn't want to keep doing
this since it is such a PITA.

However, other posters in the thread gave me enough hints that I think
that I can help him make it work.  LILO's trick of installing a small
translating shim on INT 13 may be just the ticket...

Warner


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