From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 18:32:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA14550 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:32:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hsw.generalresources.com ([203.79.17.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA14380 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:31:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hsw@email.generalresources.com) Received: from hsw.generalresources.com (localhost.generalresources.com [127.0.0.1]) by hsw.generalresources.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA21785; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:28:07 +0800 (CST) (envelope-from hsw@hsw.generalresources.com) Message-Id: <199811260228.KAA21785@hsw.generalresources.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Mike Smith , Christopher Hall , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Christopher Hall Reply-to: Christopher Hall Subject: Using Dos Partition, was Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-reply-to: Message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:18:13 +0100." X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0 X-Mailer: exmh 2.0 Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 10:28:07 +0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , 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 > >-------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- > ||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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message