From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Dec 6 9: 3: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from acl.lanl.gov (acl.lanl.gov [128.165.147.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 60BD837B417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 09:03:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 441202 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2001 10:03:05 -0700 Received: from snaresland.acl.lanl.gov (128.165.147.113) by acl.lanl.gov with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 10:03:05 -0700 Received: (qmail 18026 invoked by uid 3499); 6 Dec 2001 10:03:05 -0700 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 6 Dec 2001 10:03:05 -0700 Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:03:05 -0700 (MST) From: Ronald G Minnich X-X-Sender: To: Terry Lambert Cc: Subject: Re: switching to real mode In-Reply-To: <3C0FA21D.86860C48@mindspring.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > It isn't enough to do what he wants, though. He wants to effectively > return to real mode and jump to a real mode boot strap loader, as if > in the second stage of a boot manager, after the partition to boot has > been selected (e.g. "Reboot to Linux", "Reboot to Windows", "Reboot to > XXX"). I understand the desire now. It all depends on how much work > he's willing to do. no, you are right. It's just that the freebsd code for this is a nice tutorial, then when he looks at bootimg or whatever it will be easier to understand. ron To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message