Date: 25 Nov 1998 10:21:49 -0600 From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Marius Bendiksen <Marius.Bendiksen@scancall.no>, Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com>, 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: <864srnyc82.fsf@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Wed, 25 Nov 1998 04:57:35 -0800" References: <50753.911998655@zippy.cdrom.com>
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>>>Oh yeah? How about telling us how. :-) >> Ever heard of .pif files? Go check out how Full Throttle works, for example. > Ummm. Rebooting into DOS is *not* the same problem as booting into > FreeBSD, though you seem to be under the mistaken impression that it > is. If you don't believe me, just try constructing a PIF file for > fbsdboot.exe and launch the procedure from your desktop. You will not > shut down gracefully to DOS and be presented with a freebsd login > prompt a few minutes later, as you would hope and expect. The kinds > of things you need to do in order to properly shut down Windows and > launch the FreeBSD kernel are simply different. Jordan, we've been over this before. Did you ever actually *try* what the rest of the list said? 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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