From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 17 14:24:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BD514DC3 for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 14:24:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA57438; Mon, 17 May 1999 22:25:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 22:25:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE In-Reply-To: <199905171832.LAA00362@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 17 May 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Would it be possible to add a driver to config.sys which could record the > > various vectors or is that too late? > > We've been here and asked this; it's too late. Feel free to ask Robert > for the details, or just trust me. 8) Sure. I'm just thinking aloud :-) > > The only way to get a clean slate with the system is to reboot. If you > can arrange a "controlled" reboot of some sort, we might get somewhere. If you are going to reboot anyway, its not too much to ask for a bootable floppy/cd to be inserted. I don't think fbsdboot.exe has much practical value at this time. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message