From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Sep 13 5:34:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5D5837B403 for ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 05:34:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@spare0.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.114]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA28755; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:04:06 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1000382471.3ba0a007838ff@www.freedom2surf.net> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 22:04:03 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: kehl@f2s.com Subject: RE: How to boot FreeBSD from DOS? Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13-Sep-2001 kehl@f2s.com wrote: > I've got notebook with not working floppy and it cannot boot from PCMCIA. > How > can I boot FreeBSD 4.0 (not PAO) from DOS (then I use PLIP)? > > fbsdboot.exe wrote "Invalid format!" > bsdboot.com loaded kernel, than hanged up. > > How to do it correctly and to specify MFS root file? It is no longer (post FreeBSD 2.2) to do this because fbsdboot.exe doesn't understand elf kernels. Even if it did Windows screws certain BIOS vectors that FreeBSD needs to work (AFAIK). I think your only option would be to put the HD from your laptop into another that can boot off CD or floppy, or get an adapter to attach it to a desktop machine. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message