Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:34:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> To: sobomax@altavista.net, thyerm@camtech.com.au Cc: ctapang@easystreet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au Subject: Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE) Message-ID: <199905191734.NAA14945@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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> > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22 > > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel > > and hence the whole system. > > Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with older DOS > just to run FBSDBOOT - it simply enough to make "native" FreeBSD boot floppy with > /boot/loader and hacked /boot/loader.conf to boot kernel from your hard drive, so it > seems that FBSDBOOT now totally useless :( > > Sincerely, > > Maxim > Why can't we make a copy of the vector table and save to file and have fbsdboot use the table from the file? -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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