Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:45:39 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199811251845.KAA01537@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 19:39:43 %2B0100." <3.0.5.32.19981125193943.00992af0@mail.scancall.no>
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> >Try booting a 3.0 kernel with 'options "VM86"' in the config. > > I am sure having the ability to do everything -except- VM86 in this fashion > would be infinitely preferrable to not being able to do -anything- at all :) vm86 (and other similar functions) are going to be mandatory soon if we have any hope of keeping up with PC evolution. So let me put it more simply; DOS scrambles the state of the system to a point where it's not possible to run FreeBSD properly. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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