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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!huxley.anu.edu.au!not-for-mail From: gpg109@huxley.anu.edu.au (Paul Gortmaker) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Moving from Linux ---> FreeBSD Date: 25 May 1995 10:41:30 +1000 Organization: Australian National University Lines: 18 Message-ID: <3q0jnq$7t9@huxley.anu.edu.au> References: <D91FLv.8qD@ritz.mordor.com> <3pturn$1av@agate.berkeley.edu> <3pumfv$7ph@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <3pupl3$cq9@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.2.12 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #16 (NOV) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >In article <3pumfv$7ph@nntp5.u.washington.edu>, >Tim Smith <tzs@u.washington.edu> wrote: >>Suggestion: it would be real nice if FreeBSD had something like Linux's >>LOADLIN. For those who haven't seen it, LOADLIN is a DOS program that >>knows how to turn off your extended memory manager and load a Linux kernel. >We do. It's called "DOSBOOT", and you'll be seeing it in action soon >on the next CDROM! Bad name. People will think that it allows you to boot DOS from FreeBSD. :-) How'bout bsdboot? (Okay, now lets make the jump back into real mode, put the 8259's into a sane state, ....) Paul.