From owner-freebsd-current  Wed Nov 25 04:57:50 1998
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Received: (from majordom@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01829
          for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:57:50 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG)
Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01824
          for <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:57:49 -0800 (PST)
          (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com)
Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1])
	by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA50757;
	Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:57:39 -0800 (PST)
To: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>
cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, hsw@email.generalresources.com,
        hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:44:06 +0100."
             <3.0.5.32.19981125134406.0092f440@mail.scancall.no> 
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:57:35 -0800
Message-ID: <50753.911998655@zippy.cdrom.com>
From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG

> >Oh yeah?  How about telling us how. :-)
> 
> Ever heard of .pif files? Go check out how Full Throttle works, for example.

Ummm.  Rebooting into DOS is *not* the same problem as booting into
FreeBSD, though you seem to be under the mistaken impression that it
is.  If you don't believe me, just try constructing a PIF file for
fbsdboot.exe and launch the procedure from your desktop.  You will not
shut down gracefully to DOS and be presented with a freebsd login
prompt a few minutes later, as you would hope and expect.  The kinds
of things you need to do in order to properly shut down Windows and
launch the FreeBSD kernel are simply different.

> Actually, the OS/2 Extended Attributes would probably be better...

Seeing as how nobody's doing the work in either case, it seems
a rather moot point, don't you think? :-)

- Jordan

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message