Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:11:23 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) Message-ID: <353BB9FB.13728473@whistle.com> References: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980420223631.22421B-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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Andrzej Bialecki wrote:
>
> On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Hancock wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > > You can't put device nodes on an MSDOS filesystem - you would need
> > > DEVFS for this to work.
> >
> > Sounds like a good reason to test devfs.
> >
> > options DEVFS
> >
> > boot -sv
> > mount -t devfs /dev /dev
> >
> > If it works then add ...
> >
> > options SLICE
> >
>
> Sounds interesting. :-) When I have some time (i.e. during the weekend)
> I'll try this.
SLICE at present doesn't know how to make other types of filesystems
root.
(or in fact it's never been tested though it MAY work)
patches will be welcome..
the first place to look is in the new file
/sys/i386/i386/mountroot.c
where I concentrated everythingn to do with mounting the root FS
>
> Andrzej Bialecki
>
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