Mike, Thanks for trying fbsdboot.exe. I need more information to fix it. I would like to fix it, so please describe exactly what the problem is. What do you mean by the "need to reboot the system to restore various vectors that DOS destroys"? Do you mean that prior to executing the FreeBSD kernel init routines, DOS does something to the loaded area? I'm sorry I can't find any info on this either in the mail threads or in freebsd.org. Probably I'm not looking hard enough, but I believe it would be more efficient to just ask you.
Carlos C. Tapang http://www.genericwindows.com -----Original Message----- From: Mike Smith <m...@smith.net.au> To: Carlos C. Tapang <ctap...@easystreet.com> Cc: Bob Bishop <r...@gid.co.uk>; Mike Smith <m...@smith.net.au>; curr...@freebsd.org <curr...@freebsd.org> Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 7:28 PM Subject: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE >> >It doesn't work. Don't use it. You need to reboot the system to >> >restore various vectors that DOS destroys. Please see the previous >> >threads on this topic, especially anything from Robert Nordier. >> > >> The most relevant piece I can find from R. Nordier is the following: >> "The fbsdboot.exe program should probably be considered obsolete. It >> should (in theory) be possible to use it to load /boot/loader, which >> can then load the kernel, but there are various reasons this doesn't >> work too well." > >These reasons were also expounded, and I did summarise them in another >message on this thread. > >> I have not tested the updated program with /boot/loader. /boot/loader does >> not help me because my root directory is in a memory file system, and I can >> not assume that my users will want to reformat their DOS drives or even >> repartition it. So all FreeBSD files are in the DOS file system. > >The loader won't help you because you are booting from under DOS, but >the loader will boot the kernel just fine off a DOS filesystem. > >-- >\\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith >\\ sometimes you're behind. \\ m...@smith.net.au >\\ The race is long, and in the \\ msm...@freebsd.org >\\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msm...@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
