From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 14 10:45:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA04804 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:45:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA04795 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 10:45:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA13179; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 12:44:52 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id MAA24157; Fri, 14 Mar 1997 12:44:51 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199703141844.MAA24157@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Re: DOS_booter To: davida@blatz.cs.uwm.edu (Professor G. Davida) Date: Fri, 14 Mar 97 12:44:49 CST Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703141454.IAA01894@blatz.cs.uwm.edu> from "Professor G. Davida" at Mar 14, 97 08:54:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > To boot the Thinkpad 760 and have the MWAVE modem > and the Soundblaster emulation work under FreeBSD > it may be necesaary to boot the FreeBSD kernel directly > from DOS or Windows95. Is there there such a boot program? Check out /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/dosboot (/usr/mdec/fbsdboot.exe) It looks like it does what you're asking for. I don't have any DOS machines around to try it on, however. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847