> > > The loader won't help you because you are booting from under DOS, but > > the loader will boot the kernel just fine off a DOS filesystem. > > I'd like to understand this aspect of the loader better. This mode > might be useful for booting from (for example) a DOS flash filesystem?
Typically a bootable volume on the PC has a helper BIOS that makes it look like a floppy disk. > Um... off to the source code. Thanks for the tip. The loader's multiple filesystem support is pretty simple and consequently a bit stupid; it will simply apply every filesystem module to the current device until one works (yay!) or they all fail. It's so stupid that you can even call it recursively (this is how transparent gunzipping works, and why the files have to have different names). -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msm...@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
