From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 11 18:13:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE7E15457; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:13:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with smtp (Exim 3.03 #4) id 128DHx-000Fx4-00; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:13:33 -0800 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 18:13:28 -0800 (PST) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Bob K Cc: Mike Smith , Geff Hanoian , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [OT] DOS-in-ROM (was Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels) In-Reply-To: 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, Bob K wrote: > 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... FreeBSD will never run on a 286. > Bob > "I love signing autographs. I'll sign anything but veal cutlets. My > ballpoint pen slips on veal cutlets." - Casey Stengel Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message