Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 13:37:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: Christian.Gusenbauer@netway.at, davidd@stack.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD-boot Message-ID: <200003032137.NAA01275@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Mar 2000 20:46:01 EST." <38BF1959.881B5538@bellatlantic.net>
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> Christian Gusenbauer wrote: > > > > Hi David! > > > > I'm sorry for you, but FBSDBOOT will never support ELF binaries :-(! As > > developer of this utility I had a discussion about supporting ELF when ELF was > > introduced into FreeBSD. The reason, why ELF support was not integrated is, that > > the new boot loader and the kernel rely on the state of the hardware, BIOS > > and BIOS extensions. > > Sorry for a stupid question but how was it able > to boot with aout ? We weren't using anything like as much volatile system state back then. > So maybe there is a chance that it can be > adapted for ELF when started from a plain DOS ? For the umpteenth time, NO. This can't be done. > Well, maybe nowadays when the plain DOS is almost > completely displaced by Windows 9x maybe future > work on FBSDBOOT is not worth the effort in any > case. Now you're starting to think. 8) -- \\ 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-hackers" in the body of the message
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