Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:04:20 -0800 (PST) From: Geff Hanoian <boing@boing.com> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Cc: boing@boing.com, rone@ennui.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Message-ID: <200001112304.PAA11724@kusanagi.boing.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001111430230.72392-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> from Doug White at "Jan 11, 2000 2:30:40 pm"
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> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Geff Hanoian wrote: > > > > Oliver Fromme writes: > > > Just don't boot FreeBSD from DOS. > > > > > > If that's the case, has fbsdboot.exe been removed from the 3.4 CD? > > > > Some embedded systems (PICOBSD) will only boot off a DOS partition. Won't this > > affect those? > > Like what? Like, if I am required by the hardware (for whatever reason) to boot off of a FAT16 partition with a 'Command.com' type thing, wouldn't the fbsdboot.exe allow me to still boot a bsd kernel. Where as if I must install the boot loader, I might not even be able to get the boot loader to show up on the hardware disk emulator. Does that make sense? Geff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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