Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 08:51:01 -0600 (CST) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Diskless boot questions Message-ID: <9502151451.AA18517@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199502151307.IAA03485@starkhome.cs.sunysb.edu> from "Gene Stark" at Feb 15, 95 08:07:51 am
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> Does anybody know the answer to this one? We are using the FreeBSD diskless > boot code in an EPROM on an SMC Ultra network interface. This will be used > in a student lab where students will either be booting FreeBSD over the net, > or else will be booting MSDOS off of the local hard drive. The mechanism > for loading MSDOS is to exit the EPROM boot code and continue with the normal > BIOS boot chain. While I use diskless boots, I don't use DOS so I can't help you. Suggested cruddy workaround: use the "menuing" feature in config.sys/autoexec.bat to provide a bootup menu, instead of using an EPROM. I don't remember the syntax, but you can do something along the lines of: % cat config.sys [DOS Menu] 1. FreeBSD !!! :-) :-) 2. DOS :-( :-( [FreeBSD] goto end [DOS] # typical config.sys for DOS here [Common] end: % cat autoexec.bat [FreeBSD] c:\bin\netboot [DOS] # typical autoexec.bat for DOS here % which is a workaround hack, but should provide you with similar functionality... :-) Just a thought. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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