From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 29 23: 0:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC0C37BC58 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2000 23:00:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bsdx@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA27769; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 01:56:56 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bsdx@looksharp.net) Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 01:56:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Adam To: Jonathan Lemon Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs In-Reply-To: <20000429214311.A11995@prism.flugsvamp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:15:47AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 29 April 2000 at 13:44:08 -0700, Jonathan Lemon wrote: >> > jlemon 2000/04/29 13:44:08 PDT >> > >> > Added files: >> > lib/libstand ext2fs.c >> > Log: >> > Add ext2fs support to the loader. >> >> What's the need for this? > >It allows us to see linux partition types, and load from them; >I should be able to boot a freebsd kernel and memory image from >a pure linux box, although I've only used it to load the kernel >at this point. >-- >Jonathan 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 freebsd root on the ext2fs partition would be cool. Any idea how much work it might take someone to do this? An alternative would be mounting a file on the ext2fs via vn as the freebsd root containing a freebsd install on ffs or ext2. This way might make it easier to have access to the underlying ext2 and make it easier for the base linux system to populate / modify if linux has trouble with ffs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message