From owner-freebsd-current Mon May 1 12:43:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8846737B789 for ; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:43:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA95632; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:33:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Adam Cc: Jonathan Lemon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Apr 2000 01:56:56 EDT." Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:33:11 -0700 Message-ID: <95629.957209591@localhost> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Not sure if this is a silly question or not, but could the kernel somehow > view a specific dir on a ext2fs disk as the freebsd root and boot a > freebsd system from it? Also being able to access the stuff below the I think there's a more general need to have a loader variable which you can set for "chrootdir", that being the subdirectory of the rootfs which becomes "/". Such a feature would be good for a lot more than just hosting a FreeBSD system inside your existing Red Hat installation. :) Booting multiple versions of FreeBSD without having to play partition games comes to mind.. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message