From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 17 11:34:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 094DE14CC9 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:34:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00362; Mon, 17 May 1999 11:32:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905171832.LAA00362@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Doug Rabson Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 May 1999 09:47:26 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:32:31 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It doesn't work. Don't use it. You need to reboot the system to > > restore various vectors that DOS destroys. Please see the previous > > threads on this topic, especially anything from Robert Nordier. > > Would it be possible to add a driver to config.sys which could record the > various vectors or is that too late? We've been here and asked this; it's too late. Feel free to ask Robert for the details, or just trust me. 8) The only way to get a clean slate with the system is to reboot. If you can arrange a "controlled" reboot of some sort, we might get somewhere. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message