From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 08:43:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA20296 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:43:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA20290 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:43:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00674; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:40:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811251640.IAA00674@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Christopher Hall , Mike Smith , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:28:24 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 08:40:52 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Let me add yet another question to this: is there any way to boot FreeBSD > from DOS partition, using /boot/loader? It's not generally possible to boot FreeBSD once DOS has started; modern DOS versions corrupt the BIOS vectors in a fashion that makes it impossible to obtain system information. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message