From owner-cvs-all Mon May 1 14:22:13 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from server.baldwin.cx (jobaldwi.campus.vt.edu [198.82.67.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47B4D37B789; Mon, 1 May 2000 14:22:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx (john [10.0.0.2]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09389; Mon, 1 May 2000 17:21:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <200005012121.RAA09389@server.baldwin.cx> X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200005011957.MAA03128@mass.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 17:21:47 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs.c Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, Jonathan Lemon , Greg Lehey , Jonathan Lemon , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Peter Wemm Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 01-May-00 Mike Smith wrote: >> "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) Well, to continue the series of mini-loaders, I suppose you could just create a liloldr/liloboot type of thing via /sys/boot/i386/liloldr like we have done for PXE. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message