> Christian Gusenbauer wrote:
> >
> > Hi David!
> >
> > I'm sorry for you, but FBSDBOOT will never support ELF binaries :-(! As
> > developer of this utility I had a discussion about supporting ELF when ELF was
> > introduced into FreeBSD. The reason, why ELF support was not integrated is, that
> > the new boot loader and the kernel rely on the state of the hardware, BIOS
> > and BIOS extensions.
>
> Sorry for a stupid question but how was it able
> to boot with aout ?
We weren't using anything like as much volatile system state back then.
> So maybe there is a chance that it can be
> adapted for ELF when started from a plain DOS ?
For the umpteenth time, NO. This can't be done.
> Well, maybe nowadays when the plain DOS is almost
> completely displaced by Windows 9x maybe future
> work on FBSDBOOT is not worth the effort in any
> case.
Now you're starting to think. 8)
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