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From: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>
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To: sobomax@altavista.net, thyerm@camtech.com.au
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)
Cc: ctapang@easystreet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au
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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


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