Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:02:48 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org Cc: abial@nask.pl, hsw@acm.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199811251102.NAA15237@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <199811251001.SAA03218@hsw.generalresources.com> from Christopher Hall at "Nov 25, 98 06:01:48 pm"
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Christopher Hall wrote: > > In message <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811251026430.24871-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>, And > rzej Bialecki writes: > >Let me add yet another question to this: is there any way to boot FreeBSD > >from DOS partition, using /boot/loader? > > > >(I suspect it's not possible in both cases, though...) > > > >Andrzej Bialecki > > on the 1998/Nov 3.0 CDROM there is an install.bat that says > fbsdboot.exe -D kernel > I wonder if this can be used? I will try it and see. The fbsdboot.exe program runs in a DOS environment. You can use it to boot FreeBSD from DOS itself (though it works best when DOS is not running in V86 mode; and often doesn't work at all). You certainly can boot a FreeBSD kernel off a FAT/VFAT/FAT32 file system from /boot/loader. Currently, however, the kernel tends to get confused because it thinks it was booted from a UFS partition. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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