From owner-cvs-all Mon May 1 12:26:41 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (adsl-63-202-176-114.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.176.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DBFC37BDF3; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:26:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA03025; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:34:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005011934.MAA03025@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 12:16:02 PDT." <95516.957208562@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:34:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > It allows us to see linux partition types, and load from them; > > I should be able to boot a freebsd kernel and memory image from > > a pure linux box, although I've only used it to load the kernel > > at this point. > > Can we use ext2fs as a root filesystem? I would really like that. :) I seem to recall a comment that the root-mount stuff in ext2fs had rotted, but that would have been a while ago. I'm sure it'll be fixed again soon. (You're a bad, bad man. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message