Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 16:16:42 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199812040016.QAA01175@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Dec 1998 02:09:12 %2B0200." <199812040009.CAA20442@ceia.nordier.com>
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> Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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. > > OK, if this translates to "demo", then we're talking marketing- > driven solutions, and completely different rules apply. Uh, no, not at all. There are situations where to get FreeBSD into an environment, we'll have to be able to operate like this. Whether we do it with a "UMSDOS" style approach, or with a monolithic 'filesystem file', it'd be worthwhile. > Sample choices: > > o Get vm86 working reliably with a virus or two swirling > around, and a couple of TSRs trying to pop up. See the new fbsdboot sample I sent you; it'd be useful to know how vulnerable this might be to that. TBH, I can't see any problem with saying "if you have a viral infection, we can't help you". > o Use a boot floppy. Ick. We have to be able to do better than that. 8) -- \\ 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
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