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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: Equivalent to loadlin for FreeBSD
To: rickt@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Rick Tait)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 18:49:09 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960726155913.006cd8d0@psa.pencom.com> from Rick Tait at "Jul 26, 96 10:59:13 am"
Reply-To: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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> Hi gang,
> 
> I've got FreeBSD 2.1.5 on my Thinkpad 755CX, and I have the need to
> boot to Win95 dos before I go into FreeBSD so I can run an IBM
> driver to enable the enhanced video so I can get 800x600 within 
> X Windows.
> 
> Is there any way I can boot into Win95 DOS and then fire up FreeBSD
> without rebooting? I have heard about loadlin for Linux -- is 
> there an equivalent for FreeBSD? And how do I set it up?

Maybe I'm wrong but I believe fbsdboot.exe is intended to do that.
(on the release CD).

> 
> Thanks in advance,
> /rickt
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--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de