Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:05:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: imp@harmony.village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199907050105.SAA51943@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199907031915.NAA28969@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Jul 3, 99 01:15:22 pm"
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Warner Losh writes: > 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... Long ago I was a Linux hacker before converting to FreeBSD. I thought LILO was great and beat the heck out of FreeBSD's booteasy... -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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