Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:28:07 +0800 From: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Using Dos Partition, was Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199811260228.KAA21785@hsw.generalresources.com> In-Reply-To: Message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:18:13 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811252015180.6716-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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In message <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811252015180.6716-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>, Andr zej Bialecki writes: >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? I have a client who want to make a PC function as an X terminal, there is little space on the hard disk (single Win95 C:). Maybe I could make an absolute minimum FreeBSD system, make an image of this save as dos file, put this and a kernel in c:\freebsd and boot. Could the vn device be used to implement this? >Andrzej Bialecki > >-------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- > <abial@nask.pl> ||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 > --- Christopher Hall <hsw@email.generalresources.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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