From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 8 9:43:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles517.castles.com [208.214.165.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3BC7150B5 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 09:43:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA19613; Mon, 8 Nov 1999 09:34:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911081734.JAA19613@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Stephane Potvin" Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARM support In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Nov 1999 07:41:15 EST." <000201bf29e6$8bdb5f90$0100000a@stephanep.bishop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 09:34:25 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Well, let's be practical. Is there any alternative? If the firmware insists on loading something from an ext2 filesystem, you don't have a lot of choice. So write a tiny boot2 that lives in a tiny ext2 filesystem, and knows how to find a FreeBSD filesystem and the loader. Then you can pretend that the ext2 filesystem isn't there. 8) -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message