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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: booting kernel from dos
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 14:08:18 -0700 (MST)
Cc: adamm@visual.is.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199602260122.LAA02235@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Feb 26, 96 11:52:04 am
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> Adam Mitchell stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > Is there a DOS program that would allow me to execute a FreeBSD kernel
> > from a DOS partition?  Something like "kload c:\kernel"???
> 
> fbsdboot.exe is on the CD and the FTP sites; it does what you want.

I think it loads the second stage boot from a BSD partition as if it
were an MBR, then jumps to it.

I don't think this is what he had in mind.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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