Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 20:49:56 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: "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: <14636.957239396@localhost> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 14:28:40 CDT." <20000501142840.D43222@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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> 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. You wouldn't use linux's init - you'd drop a chunk of FreeBSD's bindist into, say, /freebsd, and then do something like this: set rootdev=/dev/da1s3 set rootdir=/freebsd load da3s3:/freebsd/kernel boot (not actual size - I don't remember all the exact variable name and dev:namespec format syntax). > 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. You'd want to provide a /freebsd and /usr/freebsd hierarchy, basically, to give them a way of booting between the two operating systems with full functionality in each but without causing massive perturberation to their existing Linux system. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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