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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de!emw4maba From: Markus Baeurle <emw4maba@gp.fht-esslingen.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Problems booting from DOS Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 16:31:06 +0200 Organization: FHT Esslingen, Deutschland Lines: 20 Message-ID: <839a461547@emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: emw4maba.slip.gp.fht-esslingen.de X-Newsreader: Messenger v0.27 for RISC OS X-Posting-Agent: RISC OS Newsbase 0.56 X-NNTP-Poster: FreeNews 1.02 Hi there! I have a couple of PCs in our PC-pool with FreeBSD on them. One of my problems (but one after the other) is that the kernel is stopped by EMM386 when booting FreeBSD from DOS with FBSDBOOT.EXE because of a forbidden operation or something like that. This is rather bad because the workaround to press F5 to bypass AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS is uncomfortable. The average user shouldn't be bothered with such things. I want to expand a menu which is offered to the user after booting DOS that allows him to either load Novell Netware (urgh) or boot FreeBSD. This would be consistent with some other machines running Linux - astonishingly, Linux manages to boot although EMM386 is present. I can't keep EMM386 out - the sysadmin won't change his boot sequence for obvious reasons. Is there any way to boot FreeBSD with FBSDBOOT.EXE although EMM386 is loaded? Hope somebody can help me,