Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 15:23:46 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> Cc: joelh@gnu.org (Joel Ray Holveck), 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 Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <199812032323.PAA00785@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 03 Dec 1998 23:27:00 %2B0200." <199812032127.XAA18890@ceia.nordier.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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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