From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 20 14:19:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA22692 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:19:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA22555 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:18:57 GMT (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA09371; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009353; Mon Apr 20 21:16:49 1998 Message-ID: <353BB9FB.13728473@whistle.com> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:11:23 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrzej Bialecki CC: Michael Hancock , Mike Smith , Luigi Rizzo , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Can I have the root partition on other than UFS ? (was miniBSD...) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- > abial@nask.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } > Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." > Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. > --------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message