Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 20:18:13 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Christopher Hall <hsw@acm.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /boot/loader what to set rootdev to? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811252015180.6716-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199811251640.IAA00674@dingo.cdrom.com>
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On Wed, 25 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > Let me add yet another question to this: is there any way to boot FreeBSD > > from DOS partition, using /boot/loader? > > It's not generally possible to boot FreeBSD once DOS has started; > modern DOS versions corrupt the BIOS vectors in a fashion that makes it > impossible to obtain system information. I said: "is it possible to start from _DOS_ _partition_". Not "from under running DOS"... see the difference? Andrzej Bialecki -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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