From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 19 16:18:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.uky.edu (smtp.uky.edu [128.163.2.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F0EF15164 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 16:18:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gchil0@pop.uky.edu) Received: from pop.uky.edu (pop.uky.edu [128.163.2.16]) by smtp.uky.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA01870 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 19:18:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from p200 (kilauea.volcano.flex.qx.net [208.235.88.64]) by pop.uky.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA29214 for ; Wed, 19 May 1999 19:18:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <4.1.19990519191409.0092ad90@pop.uky.edu> X-Sender: gchil0@pop.uky.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 19:17:16 -0400 To: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Greg Childers Subject: Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE) In-Reply-To: <024501bea240$ebb029b0$0d787880@apex.tapang> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like you want something like a FreeBSD version of DOS Linux. See http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html. How do they overcome this problem? Greg At 02:45 PM 5/19/99 -0700, Carlos C. Tapang wrote: >Thanks to all who pitched in their input to this issue. Most users of my >system are running Windows and don't want to have to reformat or repartition >their hard disk. So I am stuck with the DOS file system. I think the best >solution is to have my users use a FreeBSD boot floppy. The floppy will have >/boot/loader which I will point to the DOS-formatted hard disk in which the >kernel resides. > >>The flags and values in the BIOS data area would not necessarily >>be at their default values, so restoring the vectors might itself >>crash the BIOS (because it's reconfigured itself for the present >>vectors/drivers, not the default ones). >> >>Some hardware (eg. popular SCSI controllers) also configures itself >>differently when it finds it's running on DOS/Windows. This kind >>of thing in any scenario in which we start DOS then kill it would >>have the potential to seriously confuse matters. >> >>Incidentally (to correct a point made in an earlier post) *all* >>versions of DOS since 1.x have changed interrupt vectors. This is >>not a DOS 7+ phenomenon. The reason FBSDBOOT.EXE is deprecated at >>this stage is that, in the future, VM86 will be increasingly relied >>on by FreeBSD. And FBSDBOOT.EXE has *never* worked reliably in a >>VM86 context. >> >>-- >>Robert Nordier >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message