Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:39:44 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs.c Message-ID: <20000501143944.E43222@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <200005011938.MAA03050@mass.cdrom.com> References: <20000501142840.D43222@prism.flugsvamp.com> <200005011938.MAA03050@mass.cdrom.com>
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On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 12:38:54PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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.) Actually, all it needs is a wrapper around loader so that it looks like a x86 boot sector. I had a loader booting off of lilo, but seem to have misplaced the changes I had to do so. > > 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. Encapsulated in a "MFS" filesystem, the user would only see three files: loader, kernel, mfs image. I think that would be easier than trying to get our kernel to boot using only linux programs. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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