From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 17: 5:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB68114EF2 for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:05:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA01750; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:11:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001120111.RAA01750@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Geff Hanoian Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 15:04:20 PST." <200001112304.PAA11724@kusanagi.boing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:11:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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? It sounds like a contrived hypothetical example. Would you care to share a real-world example with us? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message