From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 17:19: 6 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 9488614E5E for ; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:18:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from boing@kusanagi.boing.com) Received: (from boing@localhost) by kusanagi.boing.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA12047; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from boing) From: Geff Hanoian Message-Id: <200001120118.RAA12047@kusanagi.boing.com> Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-Reply-To: from "Forrest W. Christian" at "Jan 11, 2000 5:41:49 pm" To: forrestc@iMach.com (Forrest W. Christian) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:18:37 -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: > > > Some embedded systems (PICOBSD) will only boot off a DOS partition. > > Huh? Since when? > > I use PicoBSD a lot and rarely (if ever) have any dos-like os on it. > > However, I DO agree that being able to use DOS as a fancy boot loader is a > Good Thing (tm). I breifly examined building an embedded system and some of them only wanted to boot off a fat 16 partition with a "command.com" like thing. Didn't research it too much, but it didn't seem flexible enough to boot off of a boot/loader type thing. Sure PicoBSD works fine on a floppy with a normal intel box and the boot/loader stuff. Geff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message