From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 09:55:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA24980 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:55:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from arg1.demon.co.uk (arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA24975 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 09:55:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Received: from localhost (arg@localhost) by arg1.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA09213; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:54:22 GMT (envelope-from arg@arg1.demon.co.uk) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 17:54:21 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon X-Sender: arg@server.arg.sj.co.uk To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Robert Nordier , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-Reply-To: <50753.911998655@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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