Maxim writes,
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but loader is unable to directly load kernel from
>non-FreeBSD partition (DOS in your case), so problem is slightly more
>complicated but I though your can take PicoBSD (FreeBSD on floppy) and
tweak it
>to match your needs.
>
I have tried booting /boot/loader
"Carlos C. Tapang" wrote:
> Thanks to all who pitched in their input to this issue. Most users of my
> system are running Windows and don't want to have to reformat or repartition
> their hard disk. So I am stuck with the DOS file system. I think the best
> solution is to have my users use a FreeB
Sounds like you want something like a FreeBSD version of DOS Linux. See
http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html. How do they
overcome this problem?
Greg
At 02:45 PM 5/19/99 -0700, Carlos C. Tapang wrote:
>Thanks to all who pitched in their input to this issue. Most users of my
>sy
Thanks to all who pitched in their input to this issue. Most users of my
system are running Windows and don't want to have to reformat or repartition
their hard disk. So I am stuck with the DOS file system. I think the best
solution is to have my users use a FreeBSD boot floppy. The floppy will hav
> > > > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22
> > > > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel
> > > > and hence the whole system.
> > >
> > > Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with
> > > old
> er DOS
> > >
> > > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22
> > > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel
> > > and hence the whole system.
> >
> > Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with
> > older DOS
> > just to run FBS
> > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22
> > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel
> > and hence the whole system.
>
> Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with older
> DOS
> just to run FBSDBOOT - it sim
Matthew Thyer wrote:
> Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22
> boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel
> and hence the whole system.
Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with older
DOS
just to run FBSDBOOT
The problem is that recent versions of MS-DOS (version 7 and above ?
...definitely the DOS that comes with Windows 98 and I think the DOS
with Windows 95 under some circumstances) change various vectors which
destroy FBSDBOOTs ability to work (this is because there is no way to
determine where thes
