From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 24 23:32:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA06169 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:32:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06164 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:32:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07661; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:32:00 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd007630; Thu Sep 24 23:31:51 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA14619; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:31:45 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809250631.XAA14619@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 06:31:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809250251.EAA11481@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Sep 25, 98 04:51:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Note that the use of the NT boot loader simplifies this, since it can > > have a very large boot image that it loads from (see the handbook). > > i wonder just how large... because if it can contain a full kernel one > can simply construct a boot made by a small relocator and a regular > kernel. One full cylinder. > > The real pain here is that FreeBSD won't boot on a pure read-only > > file store without modification (the existance of which was posted > > about several times by the ROM/FLASH people). > > uh ? booting the kernel obviously works because i have done it reading > from a CD or the network -- and a readonly root also seems to work, > because I have been using diskless with a readonly root for a long time. Right. Now try to make the /var/run/pid files... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message