Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:54:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981125174939.9208A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <50753.911998655@zippy.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > >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. Works fine for me - indeed it's the only way I had at the time of booting my laptop into FreeBSD as I put the root partition beyond cyl 1024. System is Win95-OSR2 / FreeBSD-2.2.various on a Libretto 50 with 1.6Gb harddrive. FBSDBOOT.EXE is configured to start in MS-DOS mode by clicking the appropriate box in the 'advanced program settings' dialog from the program tab of the alias properties. It isn't clear to me to what extent I am 'lucky' - but certainly in this particular configuration it is 100% reliable. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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