From owner-cvs-all Mon May 1 12:34:28 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 C117237B79D; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:34:22 -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 MAA03050; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:38:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005011938.MAA03050@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Greg Lehey , Jonathan Lemon , 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 14:28:40 CDT." <20000501142840.D43222@prism.flugsvamp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:38:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 12:16:02PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 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. :) > > The code is there, but I don't believe we can use linux' init. > I was thinking that perhaps the simplest thing would be to drop > the loader, kernel and mfs image on a linux system. Then we could > and use the mfs image as the freebsd root. Actually, I think we still lose here, since we'd have to smack LILO around to have it boot the loader. I don't think that will work just yet - it'll probably require some tweaks to the way that BTX starts up. (I could be wrong here, I haven't looked at LILO for over a year now.) > It would be nice if there was a way to provide a few files so that > Linux users could "upgrade" their kernel to FreeBSD while using their > existing system. I think "a few files" is going to be a *lot* of stuff. -- \\ 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