From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 8 7:26:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02DB14CA9 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 07:26:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p16-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.113]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id AAA00642; Tue, 9 Nov 1999 00:25:55 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <3826EAF5.B0C5EA55@newsguy.com> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:23:33 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephane Potvin Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARM support References: <000201bf29e6$8bdb5f90$0100000a@stephanep.bishop> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephane Potvin wrote: > > > Mmmmm... have you tried ext2fs? > > Yes, loading from an ext2fs partition works fine. Well, I tried for the > last 10 minutes to find a suitable way to tell in a manner that would not > sounds religious that using ext2fs is not really an option to no avail. > I guess that my english skills are not that good :-) > Thanks for the suggestion though. Hehhehe. :-) See, the *only* thing you need on ext2fs is /boot/*. You create a fake root with fully-populated /boot on an ext2fs, and the real root (including the kernel) on another partition. Since *loader* groks ufs, you should be ok. Actually, /kernel, /kernel.old may also reside on ext2fs, as they not used after being loaded by loader. Anyway, as the end result, your system will be running fully ufs once booted. Special care will be needed when installing/upgrading boot stuff, but... -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org What y'all wanna do? Wanna be hackers? Code crackers? Slackers Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message