From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 3 15:28:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11949 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:28:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp5.portal.net.au [202.12.71.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11941 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:28:14 -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 PAA00785; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:23:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812032323.PAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Robert Nordier cc: joelh@gnu.org (Joel Ray Holveck), mike@smith.net.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no, hsw@email.generalresources.com, hsw@acm.org, abial@nask.pl, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 Dec 1998 23:27:00 +0200." <199812032127.XAA18890@ceia.nordier.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:23:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > OK. Booting out of Windows into a carefully prepared and disinfected > DOS session has a chance of coming tolerably close to resembling a > cold boot: at least with kernel vm86 usage as it is at the moment. > > But if one is exiting Windows in order to load FreeBSD, why boot > into DOS anyway? (It's kind of like going to wash your hands before > dinner, but then stopping off for a pee on your way back to the > table.) Because you may have the FreeBSD install on the DOS partition, ie. not having a partition of its own. So you can't guarantee that you can activate a different partition and boot from it. -- \\ 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