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fre...@isvara.net

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Feb 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/20/98
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Hi,
how can I boot FreeBSD up from DOS? Is these a executable similar to
'loadlin.exe', but for FreeBSD, not Linux?

Cheers,
Dan

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Sxren Schmidt

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Feb 20, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/20/98
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In reply to fre...@isvara.net who wrote:
> Hi,
> how can I boot FreeBSD up from DOS? Is these a executable similar to
> 'loadlin.exe', but for FreeBSD, not Linux?

fbsdboot.exe (/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/dosboot/*)

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Tim Vanderhoek

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Feb 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/21/98
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On Fri, 20 Feb 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote:

> > how can I boot FreeBSD up from DOS? Is these a executable similar to
> > 'loadlin.exe', but for FreeBSD, not Linux?
>
> fbsdboot.exe (/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/dosboot/*)

/usr/mdec/fbsdboot.exe if you're not inclined to compiling it.


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fre...@isvara.net

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Feb 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/21/98
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Søren Schmidt wrote:

> fbsdboot.exe (/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/dosboot/*)

Yeah, great. Now I've build a nice slick boot menu with FreeBSD and Win95, etc
on. This allows me to run my Cyrix optimizer before I boot FreeBSD - great!

Thanx,
Dan

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Alfred Perlstein

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Feb 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM2/21/98
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>> fbsdboot.exe (/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/dosboot/*)
>
>Yeah, great. Now I've build a nice slick boot menu with FreeBSD and Win95,
etc
>on. This allows me to run my Cyrix optimizer before I boot FreeBSD - great!


what does it do? go out and buy an AMD? :)

seriously, you might want to look into the kernel config options, there are
some specific CPU settings that can be made look in
/usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for the options.

that way you can get around the ugly hack.

-Alfred

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