From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 3 16:34:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA23374 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:34:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-29-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA23283 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 16:34:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id CAA20442; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 02:09:15 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199812040009.CAA20442@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? In-Reply-To: <199812032323.PAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 3, 98 03:23:46 pm" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 02:09:12 +0200 (SAT) Cc: rnordier@nordier.com, joelh@gnu.org, 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. Sample choices: o Get vm86 working reliably with a virus or two swirling around, and a couple of TSRs trying to pop up. o Use a boot floppy. -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message