From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 27 02:09:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04308 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:09:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [195.187.243.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA04303 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 02:09:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA19904; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:13:53 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:13:53 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Mike Smith cc: Christopher Hall , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-Reply-To: <199811260513.VAA00592@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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 You mean: it's possible with current boot1/boot2 to load kernel from DOS partition? How? Or, are you saying that /boot/loader is able to do that? Then again, how? Thus far all my attempts at using something other than FreeBSD partition for $currdev result in nice System halted message. BTW. Issuing 'set' with no args should behave as 'show' IMHO, instead of 'System halted'... > 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) I am (sources as of yesterday). While I'm at it: I think the built-in commands of /boot/loader should leave their result on Forth stack. Otherwise it's really hard to test if they were successfull. 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