Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 22:32:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, tlambert@primenet.com, drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <199809252232.PAA20186@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809250617.XAA00505@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 24, 98 11:17:49 pm
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> > > The real pain here is that FreeBSD won't boot on a pure read-only > > > file store without modification (the existance of which was posted > > > about several times by the ROM/FLASH people). > > > > uh ? booting the kernel obviously works because i have done it reading > > from a CD or the network -- and a readonly root also seems to work, > > because I have been using diskless with a readonly root for a long time. > > Terry is quite fond of the myth he puts forward above, despite the fact > that many people over the years have proven that FreeBSD runs quite > happily from readonly media (me too). You have to change the rc scripts to not try to generate the /var/run information, or some of the startups *will* fail. You can make it run with modifications, in other words. Without modifications, it limps. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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