From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 25 21:14:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25669 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:14:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles143.castles.com [208.214.165.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25661 for ; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:14:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA00592; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:13:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811260513.VAA00592@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: Mike Smith , Christopher Hall , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:18:13 +0100." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:13:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith 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? 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