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Date:      Mon, 01 May 2000 12:42:27 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.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:  <20000501194227.738231CDF@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>  of "Mon, 01 May 2000 12:16:02 PDT." <95516.957208562@localhost> 

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"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. :)

I think that is what they are conspiring to do.. Make something that you
can use to boot a freebsd kernel on a preinstalled linux box... I heard
hints about what needed to be done to get lilo to start up loader since
I believe there is no room for boot2 on ext2fs.

Cheers,
-Peter



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