Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 08:49:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> To: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Porting LILO to FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907020845030.10169-100000@paprika.michvhf.com> In-Reply-To: <377CAE83.EB1F7EF5@cdsec.com>
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On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Graham Wheeler wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I currently have Linux installed in a DOS partition for one reason
> only, and that is that I want to use LILO. I would love to be able
> to get LILO working under FreeBSD so that I can free up all the space
> used up by Linux. The reason I want to use LILO is because it allows
> me to swap my C: and D: drives around when booting DOS. This lets me
> have Win95 bootable on my real C: drive, but lets me boot a Win95-free
> DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1 on my D: drive, which gets logically mapped to
> C:. I haven't found any other freeware boot loaders that have this
> ability.
>
> Has anyone ever attempted to port LILO to FreeBSD? I imagine that it
> should be possible, but would require some serious changes in low-level
> disk access code, to map disk files to physical disk locations, etc.
> If anyone has any experience with this, or has any advice (including
> pointing me to other boot loaders that can get the BIOS to switch
> disks that will work purely from DOS or FreeBSD), please let me know...
On CD #1 there's a file called osbsbeta.exe. That version allows you
to boot from different physical devices whereas osbs135.exe doesn't.
I'm using it on one machine that has 95, dos6, os2 and freebsd on
different drives.
I should mention that CD #1 I'm referring to is from 2.2.6, I haven't
looked at any newer versions.
Vince.
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