Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:35:12 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, adamm@visual.is.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting kernel from dos Message-ID: <199602272135.OAA05999@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <96Feb27.091656est.20481-2@janus.border.com> from "Jerry Kendall" at Feb 27, 96 09:09:32 am
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> > > > 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. > > 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. OK. The problem is that there is no "Linux test drive" mode, like Linux's "UMSDOS". So you can boot from a DOS partition, but you can't mount it as root using FBSDBOOT. There's another one, called NETBOOT that will boot via bootp, and another (DOSBOOT?) which does what I said as far as loading from a BSD partition. Sorry for any confusion... I suspected that the poster wanted to actually run from the local file system mounted as '/', and jumped the gun on my response. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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