From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 17:39:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pi.yip.org (yip.org [199.45.111.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADFE315495; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 17:39:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Received: from localhost (melange@localhost) by pi.yip.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA50677; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:39:14 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from melange@yip.org) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:39:13 -0500 (EST) From: Bob K X-Sender: melange@localhost To: Mike Smith Cc: Geff Hanoian , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: [OT] DOS-in-ROM (was Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels) In-Reply-To: <200001120137.RAA02138@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. > > I can fairly say that I have a reasonable amount of experience with > embedded systems, and I can't recall seeing anything like this in the > last ten or so years. > > You may have been looking at a system with layered software like > DOS-in-ROM, or possibly just something totally weird I guess. Just as an aside, I spent all day today using an 80286 laptop with DOS-in-ROM (running TeleMate off a floppy). Now this has got me wondering if PicoBSD would run on that thing... Bob "I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My ballpoint pen slips on veal cutlets." - Casey Stengel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message