Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 20:41:29 -0500 From: Peter da Silva <peter@bonkers.taronga.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using space in a DOS filesystem Message-ID: <199508230141.UAA01298@bonkers.taronga.com> In-Reply-To: <199508221526.BAA13856@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In article <199508221526.BAA13856@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> wrote: >The mount of root would probably fail if the partition was invalid. I >guess you could put the partition boundaries in the data for the program >replaces the standard boot loader. How are you going to select where >to boot from? Standard boot managers should be able to handle the >partition within a partition method (:-(). Who cares? In this environment you can boot from a DOS program, since you're guaranteed a DOS partition. Pass the bounds to the kernel any way you want... you're not constrained to the boot block environment any more.
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