From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 06:09:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA20284 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:09:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from border.com (ns [199.71.190.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA20277 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 06:09:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by janus.border.com id <20481-2>; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:16:56 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 09:09:32 -0500 From: Jerry Kendall To: Terry Lambert Cc: Michael Smith , adamm@visual.is.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting kernel from dos In-Reply-To: <199602262108.OAA02612@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: <96Feb27.091656est.20481-2@janus.border.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I dissagree with Terry, sorry Terry, I have setup one of my diskless systems to boot the kernel from the local C: drive. However, I had to rebuild the kernel to use a memory FS to place root and NFS mount the rest across the net... I don't however remember how I did it... So, if I am the only one to do this, maybe Terry is correct. On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Adam Mitchell stands accused of saying: > > > > > > Is there a DOS program that would allow me to execute a FreeBSD kernel > > > from a DOS partition? Something like "kload c:\kernel"??? > > > > fbsdboot.exe is on the CD and the FTP sites; it does what you want. > > I think it loads the second stage boot from a BSD partition as if it > were an MBR, then jumps to it. > > I don't think this is what he had in mind. > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any comments or opinions in this message are my own and may or may not reflect the comments or opinions of my present or previous employers. Jerry Kendall Border Network Technologies Inc. System Software Engineer Tel +1-416-368-7157 ext 303 jerry@border.com Fax +1-416-368-7178