From owner-cvs-all Mon May 1 12:43:16 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (peter1.yahoo.com [208.48.107.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8086937B782; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:43:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738231CDF; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:42:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Jonathan Lemon , Greg Lehey , Jonathan Lemon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs.c In-Reply-To: Message from "Jordan K. Hubbard" of "Mon, 01 May 2000 12:16:02 PDT." <95516.957208562@localhost> Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:42:27 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20000501194227.738231CDF@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message