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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
Subject: Re: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting?
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Date: Fri, 15 Jan 93 23:59:13 GMT
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In article <id.XVPW.NGG@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
>In article <1j27i2INNijr@life.ai.mit.edu> mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>> In article <id.QJNW._89@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da
>> silva) writes:
>> > bootbsd as1a:386bsd.old
>> > bootbsd -large wd0a
>> > bootbsd -debug fd0a
>
>> Julian's replacement boot blocks already do something similar to this.
>
>Interactively, right? They don';t allow something like this:
>
> initvga
> bootbsd as1a:386bsd.old
>
>Note that here I'm initialising the VGA card using some proprietary
>software, then booting off the second SCSI device. I may not even *have*
>a BSD boot block on the first SCSI device, and may be reading this
>from my alternate boot floppy.
>From a 386BSD hardliner:
Better to not allow this so as to discourage use of VGA cards which can
only be initialized from proprietary software which only runs on DOS.
Providing a workaround (don't think that some of us don't have X servers
that can set the diamond dot clocks, for instance) removes the source
of the complaints which may cause such companies to change their policies;
better for the 386BSD community that they change their policies.
The only thing you currently have difficulty doing when using Juilan's
boot blocks in combination with something like OS-boot-select is booting
directly from DOS to 386BSD (you can't boot directly from DOS to DOS
with a standard program either, you have to type Ctrl-Alt-Del) and
using hardware from companies who have been contacted and subsequently
given the 386BSD developement community a cold shoulder (basically told
us to "piss off").
Terry Lambert
terry@icarus.weber.edu
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