From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 15:10:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from c1mailgw4.prontomail.com (admin.commtouch.com [208.178.29.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7DA337B606 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:10:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from giffunip@asme.org) Received: from c1mail01.prontomail.com (208.178.29.101) by c1mailgw4.prontomail.com (NPlex 4.5.049) id 3923BF4B001C940D for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:10:06 -0700 Received: by c1mail01.prontomail.com (NPlex 2.0.123); Mon, 5 Jun 2000 15:10:06 -0700 Received: from 200.41.109.34 by SmtpServer for ; Mon, 05 Jun 2000 22:10:04 +0000 Message-ID: <393C270D.5BACA487@asme.org> Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 17:17:49 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" Organization: Universidad Nacional de Colombia X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lloyd Rennie Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Passwording boot loader. (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG sys transfers the systems files, I think he was referring to fdisk /MBR . FWIW, You could've just set the winbloze partition as the active one with fdisk. That's what I did to boot FreeBSD/Windows on my old 486 that wanted this special MBR (DDO) or it wouldn't recognize the hard disk. Nowadays I use OS/2's partition manager, and contrary to MS's efforts it works fine if you leave W98 in the partition that immediately follows the first one (owned by OS/2 Boot Manager). cheers, Pedro. Lloyd Rennie wrote: > > Forgot CC on reply... > > -- > Lloyd Rennie VBCnet GB Ltd lloyd@vbc.net > tel +44 (0) 117 929 1316 http://www.vbc.net fax +44 (0) 117 927 2015 > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 17:02:28 +0100 > From: Josef Karthauser > To: Lloyd Rennie > Subject: Re: Passwording boot loader. > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 04:49:24PM +0100, Lloyd Rennie wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > > > > > There appears to be some code in the /boot/support.4th file to force > > > the user to enter a password at kernel load time. Does anyone know > > > enough forth to tell me how to activate it? > > > > > > I've got Sony picking up my laptop any minute now and I want to > > > disable FreeBSD :( > > > > If it's dual-boot, drop into Windoze and > > > > sys c: > > > > This will overwrite the MBR, and only Windows will bo bootable. When you > > get it back you'll have to boot it with a bootdisk and rewrite it. > > Thanks Lloyd, I've done just that with sysinstall. > > Joe > -- > Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? > Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) > Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message