From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 3 20:35:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18283 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:35:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from detlev.UUCP (75-sweet.camalott.com [208.239.153.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA18275 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 20:35:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joelh@gnu.org) Received: (from joelh@localhost) by detlev.UUCP (8.9.1/8.9.1) id WAA37662; Thu, 3 Dec 1998 22:34:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from joelh) To: Mike Smith Cc: Robert Nordier , 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? References: <199812032323.PAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com> From: Joel Ray Holveck Date: 03 Dec 1998 22:34:38 -0600 In-Reply-To: Mike Smith's message of "Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:23:46 -0800" Message-ID: <867lw8v82p.fsf@detlev.UUCP> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.3 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. 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