Date: 03 Dec 1998 22:34:38 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, 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? Message-ID: <867lw8v82p.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:23:46 -0800" References: <199812032323.PAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com>
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>> 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. So is my pursuit of FBSDBOOT worthwhile, or should I abandon it in favor of Robert's suggestion? Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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