Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:18:37 -0800 (PST) From: Geff Hanoian <boing@boing.com> To: forrestc@iMach.com (Forrest W. Christian) Cc: boing@boing.com, rone@ennui.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <200001120118.RAA12047@kusanagi.boing.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000111174010.2988P-100000@workhorse.iMach.com> from "Forrest W. Christian" at "Jan 11, 2000 5:41:49 pm"
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> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Geff Hanoian wrote: > > > Some embedded systems (PICOBSD) will only boot off a DOS partition. > > Huh? Since when? > > I use PicoBSD a lot and rarely (if ever) have any dos-like os on it. > > However, I DO agree that being able to use DOS as a fancy boot loader is a > Good Thing (tm). I breifly examined building an embedded system and some of them only wanted to boot off a fat 16 partition with a "command.com" like thing. Didn't research it too much, but it didn't seem flexible enough to boot off of a boot/loader type thing. Sure PicoBSD works fine on a floppy with a normal intel box and the boot/loader stuff. Geff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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