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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:37:03 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Geff Hanoian <boing@boing.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels 
Message-ID:  <200001120137.RAA02138@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:18:37 PST." <200001120118.RAA12047@kusanagi.boing.com> 

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> 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




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