From owner-cvs-all Wed May 26 8:20:21 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6A21544A; Wed, 26 May 1999 08:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Received: from vega. (dialup1-24.iptelecom.net.ua [212.42.68.151]) by ipt2.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA20849; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:20:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from altavista.net (big_brother [192.168.1.1]) by vega. (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA53113; Wed, 26 May 1999 18:19:54 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@altavista.net) Message-ID: <374C111A.3C5D8674@altavista.net> Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 18:19:54 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Reply-To: sobomax@altavista.net Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: ru,uk,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrey Zakhvatov Cc: Robert Nordier , bde@zeta.org.au, brian@Awfulhak.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/boot/biosboot table.c References: <199905261508.VAA15811@mail.cgu.chel.su> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Andrey Zakhvatov wrote: > Hello, > > > Anyone else with reasons to keep the /sys/i386/boot/* (except netboot) > > code around any longer? >   Have we method to load kernel from DOS partition? >   I mean ability to have pseudo-diskless workstations with biosboot > and kernel image on local disk for users that must have ability to > work on FreeBSD-based X terminals, for example. Yes, /boot/loader autors claims that loader also can load kernel out of FAT/FAT32 partition, so you can make diskette with /boot/loader and write corresponding loader.rc script to load kernel out of a DOS partition. Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message