From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 11:14:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA00640 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:14:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA00633 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:14:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA07267; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:18:13 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:18:13 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: Christopher Hall , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-Reply-To: <199811251640.IAA00674@dingo.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, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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. I said: "is it possible to start from _DOS_ _partition_". Not "from under running DOS"... see the difference? Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message