Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:57:35 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <50753.911998655@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:44:06 %2B0100." <3.0.5.32.19981125134406.0092f440@mail.scancall.no>
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> >Oh yeah? How about telling us how. :-) > > Ever heard of .pif files? Go check out how Full Throttle works, for example. Ummm. Rebooting into DOS is *not* the same problem as booting into FreeBSD, though you seem to be under the mistaken impression that it is. If you don't believe me, just try constructing a PIF file for fbsdboot.exe and launch the procedure from your desktop. You will not shut down gracefully to DOS and be presented with a freebsd login prompt a few minutes later, as you would hope and expect. The kinds of things you need to do in order to properly shut down Windows and launch the FreeBSD kernel are simply different. > Actually, the OS/2 Extended Attributes would probably be better... Seeing as how nobody's doing the work in either case, it seems a rather moot point, don't you think? :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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