Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 03:56:20 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <50490.911994980@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 25 Nov 1998 13:02:48 %2B0200." <199811251102.NAA15237@ceia.nordier.com>
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> The fbsdboot.exe program runs in a DOS environment. You can use it > to boot FreeBSD from DOS itself (though it works best when DOS is > not running in V86 mode; and often doesn't work at all). Indeed. These days, most people just want an icon on their Win98 desktops they can click to boot into FreeBSD and Windows just doesn't make provisions for that kinda thing. :-) I think it's probably a bit of functionality which is on its way out and people are going to start having to rely increasingly on boot managers. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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