From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 8:43:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from misha.cisco.com (misha.cisco.com [171.69.206.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2962415528 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 08:43:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mi@misha.cisco.com) Received: (from mi@localhost) by misha.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA39737; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:43:07 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mi) Message-Id: <200001111643.LAA39737@misha.cisco.com> Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-Reply-To: from "Steve O'Hara-Smith" at "Jan 11, 2000 04:20:09 pm" To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:43:07 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: mi@aldan.algebra.com From: Mikhail Teterin X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL60 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Steve O'Hara-Smith once wrote: > 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. Can one still TRY boot boot/loader instead of kernel? -mi (blessed to not even have the DOS installed to test) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message