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From: Geff Hanoian <boing@boing.com>
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Subject: Re: fbsdboot.exe can't load elf kernels
In-Reply-To: <200001120338.TAA03976@mass.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jan 11, 2000  7:38:24 pm"
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> > > Of course, the ones which truly emulate an IDE drive at the hardware level
> > > just work like an IDE drive, although slower on writes.
> > > 
> > > The BIOS ones get tricky. Obviously, if the boot loader only uses bios
> > > calls to do it's dirty work, these work well, at least through the boot
> > > process.  If the boot loader tries to access the hardware directly, and it
> > > doesn't directly support the flash device, then the boot loader doesn't
> > > work.  Of course, this also applies to the OS.
> > 
> > And that's assuming you could actually get a UFS partition on the "drive
> > emulator thing"?  But if you were only capable of loading files to a fat16,
> > then wouldn't fbsdboot.exe (or whatever it's called) be necessary?
> 
> No.
> 
> Firstly, you are again raising a hypothetical question without actually 
> suggesting anything that might require this, so bear with me if I don't 
> take it too seriously.  Things just don't really work like this.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Honest, I don't mind.  This is like, "hey mechanic dude, my breaks sometimes
squeak, FIX IT!"  Mechanic says, "They're fine now, I can't fix it."

:)

> 
<snip boot2 discussion w/ fat16>
>

Thanks much!  Excellent info.

Geff


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