Matthias Drochner said:
| Excerpts from netbsd: 23-Apr-97 Re: boot NetBSD from DOS Charles M.
| Hannum@gnu.ai (560)
| 
| > >   Okay, there are boot blocks to boot a NetBSD kernel from a DOS
| > > partition now.
| > >   Has someone built a DOS program to load a NetBSD kernel from a DOS
| > > partition? Or, just to load "/boot" from DOS?
| > 
| > The new i386/stand/dosboot is supposed to do that, but I'm not sure
| > how well it's been tested.
| 
| To be exact, booting with a DOS program is currently the only way
| to boot a kernel on a DOS partition. There is no standalone code to
| interpret a DOS filesystem.

Yes there is (for dos floppies). see:
	ftp.op.net/pub/src/NetBSD-stuff/msdosfs-boot-code.tar

I did this for my "router on a floppy" (available in the same place) 
which needed to boot a netbsd kernel off of a msdos floppy.

	
	--jeff