From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 8:19:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pooh.elsevier.nl (pooh.elsevier.nl [145.36.9.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 430C214C2E for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:19:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from steve@pooh.elsevier.nl) Received: (from steve@localhost) by pooh.elsevier.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA06632; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:20:09 GMT (envelope-from steve) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200001111611.RAA43373@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 16:20:09 -0000 (GMT) From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 11-Jan-00 Oliver Fromme wrote: > Just don't boot FreeBSD from DOS. Indeed a search on the mailing lists about this issue will reveal a large number of gotchas related to VM86, bios vectors and such like that make this a very bad idea. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message