From owner-cvs-all Mon May 1 20:48: 3 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BF737BA7F; Mon, 1 May 2000 20:47:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA14639; Mon, 1 May 2000 20:49:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , 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 14:28:40 CDT." <20000501142840.D43222@prism.flugsvamp.com> Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 20:49:56 -0700 Message-ID: <14636.957239396@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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