Subject: Re: boot NetBSD from DOS
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Guenther Grau <s_grau@ira.uka.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/1997 17:05:12
Hi,

> Matthias Drochner said:
> | 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.

Please put this on ftp.netbsd.org so everybody can find it and it is
easier to integrate it into the src tree if it just happens to lie
around on ftp.netbsd.org :-)

  Guenther