From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 27 13:43:17 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA07356 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:43:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA07348 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 13:43:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA05999; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:35:12 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602272135.OAA05999@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: booting kernel from dos To: jerry@border.com (Jerry Kendall) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 14:35:12 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, adamm@visual.is.net, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <96Feb27.091656est.20481-2@janus.border.com> from "Jerry Kendall" at Feb 27, 96 09:09:32 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > 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.