From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 17:30:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7DC15451 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:30:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA02138; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:37:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001120137.RAA02138@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Geff Hanoian Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:18:37 PST." <200001120118.RAA12047@kusanagi.boing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:37:03 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I breifly examined building an embedded system and some of them only > wanted to boot off a fat 16 partition with a "command.com" like thing. > Didn't research it too much, but it didn't seem flexible enough to boot > off of a boot/loader type thing. Sure PicoBSD works fine on a floppy with > a normal intel box and the boot/loader stuff. I can fairly say that I have a reasonable amount of experience with embedded systems, and I can't recall seeing anything like this in the last ten or so years. You may have been looking at a system with layered software like DOS-in-ROM, or possibly just something totally weird I guess. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message