From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 07:04:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA12815 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu [129.186.185.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA12810 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 07:04:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Received: from friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA10521; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:03:58 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ccsanady@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu) Message-Id: <199811251503.JAA10521@friley-185-114.res.iastate.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Robert Nordier cc: hsw@acm.org, mike@smith.net.au, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 25 Nov 1998 12:47:02 +0200." <199811251047.MAA15178@ceia.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:03:57 -0600 From: Chris Csanady Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Christopher Hall wrote: > >> Another question: Is there any way to boot DOS from /boot/loader? >> Perhaps using some Forth code? > >I'm curious why you should want to do this (ie. rather than use a >partition manager such as boot0/booteasy or some free or commercial >alternative). Perhaps if you want to dual boot off of a serial console. Right now, I have to use lilo to boot my FreeBSD partition. It would be nice if it were possible to boot random partitions from FreeBSD as well. Chris >There's currently no way, though. The boot/loader, with Forth >itself, runs in userland (i386 protected mode ring 3). So you'd >have to add a BTX syscall, at least, in addition to the Forth code. > >-- >Robert Nordier > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message