From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 12 0:23:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles556.castles.com [208.214.165.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BE7814DE0 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:23:29 -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 AAA00633; Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001120828.AAA00633@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Anton Cc: Max Khon , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Jan 2000 10:12:56 +0200." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 00:28:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The ability to load and start a kernel != the ability to boot and run same. You cannot boot and run FreeBSD once DOS has been booted on the system. You should give up now before you waste any more of your or our time. There are good technical reasons why this is the case. If you don't understand them, please trust those of us that do. Thankyou. > hello. > > On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Max Khon wrote: > > > ftp://iclub.nsu.ru/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/fbsdboot.exe > > I have not tested it. Tell me if it works or not. > > it can boot elf cernels, but i have: > > no init > panic: no init > > rebooting at N seconds... > > maybe i must specify root device? but how? > i dont remember such problems with old fbsdboot.exe > (or it's kernel's problem?) > > anton. > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- \\ 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