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Date:      25 Nov 1998 10:21:49 -0600
From:      Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>, 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?
Message-ID:  <864srnyc82.fsf@detlev.UUCP>
In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:57:35 -0800"
References:  <50753.911998655@zippy.cdrom.com>

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>>>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.

Jordan, we've been over this before.  Did you ever actually *try* what
the rest of the list said?

Happy hacking,
joelh

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