From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 14 8:38:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from air.linkclub.or.jp (air.linkclub.or.jp [210.250.19.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D5037B408 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 08:38:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.jp.FreeBSD.org (1Cust110.tnt1.hanno.jp.da.uu.net [63.12.195.110]) by air.linkclub.or.jp (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f8EFZbW75305 for ; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:35:37 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from toshi@jp.FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:33:49 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <200109141533.f8EFXna33291.toshi@jp.FreeBSD.org> From: Toshihiko ARAI To: "Daniel O'Connor" Cc: kehl@f2s.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: How to boot FreeBSD from DOS? In-Reply-To: References: <1000382471.3ba0a007838ff@www.freedom2surf.net> X-Mailer: VM 5.96 (beta) / Mule 2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA) based on 19.34.1 Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 + , Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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). bsdboot.com(*1) supports elf kernel. The kernel of boot.flp before a little was usable at least (Probably it was FreeBSD 4.2). However, a kind of machine may not be usable. *1 http://www.nurs.or.jp/~kurati/bsd/index-en.html -- Toshihiko ARAI To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message