From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 27 18:10:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29319 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:10:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29314 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 1998 18:10:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) id KAA28050; Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:40:32 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19980628104032.A28038@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:40:32 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Matthew Thyer , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Mike Smith , Matthew Thyer , Terry Lambert , Jonathan Lemon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Booting from Microsoft (was: 'fatal trap 12' on boot (smp and up)) References: <25683.898937317@time.cdrom.com> <35958F9B.26E73D1E@camtech.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <35958F9B.26E73D1E@camtech.net.au>; from Matthew Thyer on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 10:04:35AM +0930 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 28 June 1998 at 10:04:35 +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: > Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >> >>> Soon no one will have Windows 95 or earlier so its going to be >>> pretty hard to install FreeBSD from the CD-ROM. >> >> Why do you say that? Win95 is hardly the only, or even most >> recommended, way of staging a CDROM installation. > > OK, I'm not saying people wont be able to install at all. > > I'm just saying that people who try to use the batch file > on the CD-ROM which runs fbsdboot.exe are going to be confused > as to why it crashes all the time (if "options VM86" is in the > generic kernel). > > Somewhere it will have to be documented that Windows 98 users > will have to make the FreeBSD boot floppy and boot from that > to install. > > I haven't tested all combinations and I realise that there > will still be several ways of installing FreeBSD, But I think > it should be documented that certain ways are not going to > work. I've put a lot of effort into making it clear that any attempt to boot FreeBSD from another running operating system or Microsoft product is a matter of luck at the best. That notwithstanding, there's no reason to expect things to stay the way they are: somebody will get around to making it possible to boot from Microsoft's latest. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message