From owner-cvs-all Mon May 1 12:50:16 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 9398037B6A7; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:50:07 -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 MAA03128; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:57:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200005011957.MAA03128@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , 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: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 12:42:27 PDT." <20000501194227.738231CDF@overcee.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:57:49 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. Not to mention nowhere to put boot1 (since LILO might be there already). It sounds like things are a long way forward - this is looking pretty neat. 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