From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Oct 12 22:54:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ra.nks.net (ra.nks.net [208.226.218.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BC6B37B502 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:54:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (joeo@localhost) by ra.nks.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA02823 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:54:46 -0400 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 01:54:46 -0400 (EDT) From: X-Sender: joeo@ra.nks.net To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: booting from dos Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Was just looking/messing around and found out that the netbsd/i386 "dosboot.com" can load and boot a freebsd elf kernel. ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5_ALPHA2/i386/installation/misc/ FreeBSD lost this functionality (IIRC) when it moved to elf and the dos loader in /sys/boot/biosboot never got updated to understand elf images. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message