Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> writes:

> 
>   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.

>   Does the new second stage boot program run in protected mode, or
> does it use BIOS for disk i/o?

`Yes.'

It runs mostly in protected mode, but calls out to the real mode BIOS
to do disk I/O.