Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 19:13:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Carlos C. Tapang" <ctapang@easystreet.com> Cc: "Bob Bishop" <rb@gid.co.uk>, "Mike Smith" <mike@smith.net.au>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE Message-ID: <199905170213.TAA09636@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 May 1999 17:16:44 PDT." <00f401be9ffa$8e7204f0$0d787880@apex.tapang>
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> >It doesn't work. Don't use it. You need to reboot the system to > >restore various vectors that DOS destroys. Please see the previous > >threads on this topic, especially anything from Robert Nordier. > > > The most relevant piece I can find from R. Nordier is the following: > "The fbsdboot.exe program should probably be considered obsolete. It > should (in theory) be possible to use it to load /boot/loader, which > can then load the kernel, but there are various reasons this doesn't > work too well." These reasons were also expounded, and I did summarise them in another message on this thread. > I have not tested the updated program with /boot/loader. /boot/loader does > not help me because my root directory is in a memory file system, and I can > not assume that my users will want to reformat their DOS drives or even > repartition it. So all FreeBSD files are in the DOS file system. The loader won't help you because you are booting from under DOS, but the loader will boot the kernel just fine off a DOS filesystem. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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