From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 15: 4:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from kusanagi.boing.com (adsl-gte-la-216-86-200-115.mminternet.com [216.86.200.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CA7C151FE for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:04:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from boing@kusanagi.boing.com) Received: (from boing@localhost) by kusanagi.boing.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA11724; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:04:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from boing) From: Geff Hanoian Message-Id: <200001112304.PAA11724@kusanagi.boing.com> Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-Reply-To: from Doug White at "Jan 11, 2000 2:30:40 pm" To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu (Doug White) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:04:20 -0800 (PST) Cc: boing@boing.com, rone@ennui.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (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 > On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Geff Hanoian wrote: > > > > Oliver Fromme writes: > > > Just don't boot FreeBSD from DOS. > > > > > > If that's the case, has fbsdboot.exe been removed from the 3.4 CD? > > > > Some embedded systems (PICOBSD) will only boot off a DOS partition. Won't this > > affect those? > > Like what? Like, if I am required by the hardware (for whatever reason) to boot off of a FAT16 partition with a 'Command.com' type thing, wouldn't the fbsdboot.exe allow me to still boot a bsd kernel. Where as if I must install the boot loader, I might not even be able to get the boot loader to show up on the hardware disk emulator. Does that make sense? Geff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message