Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 4 May 2002 10:17:37 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Tilman Linneweh <tilman@arved.de>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        tilman@arved.de
Subject:   i386/37734: sys/i386/boot/dosboot needs to be replaced
Message-ID:  <200205040817.g448HbF00488@sauna.arved.de>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
	Note: There was a bad value `bug' for the field `>Class:'.
	It was set to the default value of `sw-bug'.


>Number:         37734
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       sys/i386/boot/dosboot needs to be replaced
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 04 01:20:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Tilman Linneweh
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
BSD Usergroup Austria
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD sauna.arved.de 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #2: Tue Feb 19 15:30:21 CET 2002 root@sauna.arved.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SAUNA i386


	
>Description:
	The Program in sys/i386/boot/dosboot is obsolete and unmaintained.
	(rnordier claimed this in i386/2234 in 1999 and it is still in the tree
	:-)

	It is only able to boot a.out Kernels (e.g. FreeBSD-3.0), not ELF.
	(reported by Gerhard Gonter, gonter@wu-wien.ac.at)
	
	It may be replaced by this program:  
	http://www.nurs.or.jp/~kurati/bsd/index-en.html
	which is reported to work with actual kernels.
	(reported by Klaus Goger, beeblebro@gmx.net)
      
	
>How-To-Repeat:
	Try to boot a kernel with fbsdboot.exe it reports "Invalid Format"
	
>Fix:

	

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200205040817.g448HbF00488>