From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 08:23:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA18347 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:23:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (38-sweet.camalott.com [208.239.153.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA18331 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:23:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id KAA98404; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:21:51 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Marius Bendiksen , Robert Nordier , hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? References: <50753.911998655@zippy.cdrom.com> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:21:49 -0600 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:57:35 -0800" Message-ID: <864srnyc82.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 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. Jordan, we've been over this before. Did you ever actually *try* what the rest of the list said? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message