From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 16 16: 4:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop1.gte.net (smtppop1pub.gte.net [206.46.170.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DAD37BB42 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:03:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from res03db2@gte.net) Received: from evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net (evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.146.5]) by smtppop1.gte.net with ESMTP ; id SAA2720787 Fri, 16 Jun 2000 18:02:09 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 16:04:11 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family X-Sender: res03db2@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net To: Lorin Lund Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Boot from DOS - Like loadlin?? In-Reply-To: <20000615202517.9804.qmail@web119.yahoomail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did something like this for a modem that used a DOS based enabler. I had the system boot dos, run the enabler, and then run FBSDBOOT. I think you can find it in the tools directory. [RC] On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Lorin Lund wrote: > I want to run FreeBSD on a PC that has proprietary > card in it. The card is initialized by a DOS program. > > If I could boot to DOS, initialize the card, and then > start FreeBSD things should work fine. > > or, if there is a DOS emulator that could allow the > DOS program to reach the hardware, that would work > too. (If it could be configured to run un-attended at > boot time.) > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Photos -- now, 100 FREE prints! > http://photos.yahoo.com > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message