From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jun 7 5:16:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.182.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B91237BCBB for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 05:16:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ferdl@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at) Received: from sondermuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (sondermuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.214.105]) by alijku04.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA122472 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:16:29 +0200 Received: from atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (root@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at [140.78.214.101]) by sondermuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA22807 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:15:45 +0200 Received: from localhost (ferdl@localhost) by atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA81040 for ; Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:16:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ferdl@atommuell.oeh.uni-linz.ac.at) Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 14:16:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Ferdinand Goldmann To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: fbsdboot.exe Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello. Can this thing (fbsdboot.exe) in any way boot an ELF kernel? I have never used it myself, but I have a friend who wanted to try out FreeBSD for the first time, and he was not able to boot anything with this thing. The binary is on the 4.0-RELEASE CDs. /* * fbsdboot.c Boot FreeBSD from DOS * * (C) 1994 by Christian Gusenbauer (cg@fimp01.fim.uni-linz.ac.at) And the source even says, that it was written by an assistant at my university 8^), who, however, is long gone from here. "1994" sounds like it might not work anymore. If it is obsolete, why is the binary then still on the boot CD? Please forgive my probably stupid questioning, but I currently cannot try out this myself (who has a machine with DOS on it anyway *g*) Regards, Ferdinand Goldmann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message