From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 8:11:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AD0614A2B for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:11:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA43373; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:11:03 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:11:03 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200001111611.RAA43373@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable In-Reply-To: <85fibl$2bkh$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> User-Agent: tin/1.4.1-19991201 ("Polish") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.4-19991219-STABLE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anton wrote in list.freebsd-stable: > is there way to boot fbsd3.x from dos? all ok with 2.2.8, > but in 3.x fbsdboot.exe say 'Invalid format'. > also i see that fbsdboot.exe is not changed since 2.xx > it can't support elf format at all? Correct, fbsdboot.exe does not support ELF kernels, and it's considered obsolete. (It didn't work for me anymore even before the switch to ELF, so there must be even more brokenness in there.) Just don't boot FreeBSD from DOS. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message