Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:13:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199811260513.VAA00592@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your 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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> 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 didn't, no. Yes, it's possible; you can load the kernel and then either change $currdev or set $rootdev to the 'real' root filesystem. ($rootdev was being bogusly ignored until recently, so you will want to be up to date) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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