Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:37:45 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: jlouis@diku.dk Cc: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from swap Message-ID: <20021002023745.GA22333@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20021001231430.GA21620@diku.dk> References: <20021001225235.GA21008@diku.dk> <20021001190903.I218@locore.ca> <20021001231430.GA21620@diku.dk>
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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:14:30AM +0200, jlouis@diku.dk wrote: > On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:09:03PM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > Apparently, On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:52:35AM +0200, > > jlouis@diku.dk said words to the effect of; > > > > > Is there an image from which it is possible to boot from a swap > > > partition of another operating system? > > > > No, just for netbooting or from cdrom. Why? > > Plain curiosity. I can do with netboot. My old U1 has no CDROM drive. It > sports a running OS though, so it would had been aesier if I could > dd a boot image unto the swap partition and fire from there, than to > configure the other box for doing netboots. > > Now. is it planned for the 5.0 release? If not, I might be interested in > trying to do it myself. We don't suport the SCSI controller in the U1 (or U2). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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