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Article #6050386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting?
From: Karl Lehenbauer
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:10
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:10
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Hey, how about making the second stage boot, say Julian's loader, an executable DOS program? That way 386BSD wouldn't have to reset the keyboard and do a bunch of other bootup dinking that is still causing us compatability fits -- DOS could handle it. Plus people who needed to do weird stuff like config a card could do it with the DOS utility those companies inevitably provide and, you know, put it in their AUTOEXEC.BAT. 386BSD.EXE would find the 386BSD partition and load /386bsd in its normal manner. The only drawback is you'd need a DOS partition or floppy to do it that way, no biggie but possibly offensive to purists. Comments? -- -- Email info@NeoSoft.com for info on getting interactive Internet access. "In a minute, I'll burp up your droid."
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psinntp!sugar!karl From: karl@NeoSoft.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Subject: 386BSD.EXE - Let DOS handle booting? Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 06:10:04 GMT Message-ID: <C0q94w.48p@NeoSoft.com> Lines: 21