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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE 
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 23:09:21 -0400
From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>
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> 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.

I'd like to understand this aspect of the loader better.  This mode
might be useful for booting from (for example) a DOS flash filesystem?

Um... off to the source code.  Thanks for the tip.

Cheers,

Jerry Hicks
wghicks@bellsouth.net


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