From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 10:20:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA24196 for current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:20:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from jupiter.planet.co.at (jupiter.planet.co.at [193.170.249.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA24188 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 10:20:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from safeconcept.utimaco.co.at (safeconcept.utimaco.co.at [193.170.249.226]) by jupiter.planet.co.at (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id TAA06921; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 19:20:03 +0100 Received: from christian (christian.utimaco.co.at [10.0.0.39]) by safeconcept.utimaco.co.at (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA03237; Wed, 20 Nov 1996 19:20:08 +0100 Message-ID: <32934BF8.471A@utimaco.co.at> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 19:20:40 +0100 From: "DI. Christian Gusenbauer" Organization: Utimaco Safe-Concept X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Wunsch CC: FreeBSD-current users , Christian.Gusenbauer@safeconcept.utimaco.co.at Subject: Re: cdrom boot? References: <199611201711.SAA17068@uriah.heep.sax.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk J Wunsch wrote: > > As DI. Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > > > Make a DOS bootable floppy, copy fbsdboot.exe on it, edit autoexec.bat > > and add a line like "fbsdboot -C -D f:\kernel" (f = CD-ROM drive) and that's > > it. > > Dosboot... the source code in the tree looks fairly outdated. > Christian, can you see to update it? It would also be fine to find a Yes, I know. There's a big lack of spare-time ... > method to automatically generate the header files out of the genuine > headers, so they can't disagree. It would be even better if we could Yeah, that would be fine ;-) > get it to compile with bcc(1) and finally make a .com file out of it. > > ;-) I tried to port fbsdboot to bcc a year ago. Unfortunately, bcc doesn't understand inline assembler statements (AFAIR) and I'm not very familar with the unix assembler. Does bcc support 32bit pointers/addresses (like the 'far' masm statement)? Christian. -- Christian Gusenbauer Christian.Gusenbauer@utimaco.co.at