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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!classic.iinet.com.au!news.uoknor.edu!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!news.sprintlink.net!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!tzs From: tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Moving from Linux ---> FreeBSD Date: 24 May 1995 07:16:15 GMT Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95 Lines: 16 Message-ID: <3pumfv$7ph@nntp5.u.washington.edu> References: <D91FLv.8qD@ritz.mordor.com> <3pturn$1av@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: nntp1.u.washington.edu Suggestion: it would be real nice if FreeBSD had something like Linux's LOADLIN. For those who haven't seen it, LOADLIN is a DOS program that knows how to turn off your extended memory manager and load a Linux kernel. This has two big advantages: 1. No need to install a boot manager, or, if you've already got one (e.g., OS/2's Boot Manager), no need to muck with it. As far as booting is concerned, Linux is DOS. 2. No need to put a Linux partition below cylinder 1024. It also makes it easy to make a boot floppy: just take any DOS boot floppy, and copy LOADLIN.EXE and a kernel image to it. --Tim Smith