From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 25 15:32:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA27404 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:32:42 -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 PAA27393 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:32:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18516; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:32:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd018496; Fri Sep 25 15:32:24 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA20186; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 15:32:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199809252232.PAA20186@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 22:32:11 +0000 (GMT) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, tlambert@primenet.com, drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199809250617.XAA00505@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 24, 98 11:17:49 pm 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 > > > 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. > > Terry is quite fond of the myth he puts forward above, despite the fact > that many people over the years have proven that FreeBSD runs quite > happily from readonly media (me too). You have to change the rc scripts to not try to generate the /var/run information, or some of the startups *will* fail. You can make it run with modifications, in other words. Without modifications, it limps. 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