Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 12:38:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs.c Message-ID: <200005011938.MAA03050@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 May 2000 14:28:40 CDT." <20000501142840.D43222@prism.flugsvamp.com>
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> On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 12:16:02PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Can we use ext2fs as a root filesystem? I would really like that. :) > > The code is there, but I don't believe we can use linux' init. > I was thinking that perhaps the simplest thing would be to drop > the loader, kernel and mfs image on a linux system. Then we could > and use the mfs image as the freebsd root. Actually, I think we still lose here, since we'd have to smack LILO around to have it boot the loader. I don't think that will work just yet - it'll probably require some tweaks to the way that BTX starts up. (I could be wrong here, I haven't looked at LILO for over a year now.) > It would be nice if there was a way to provide a few files so that > Linux users could "upgrade" their kernel to FreeBSD while using their > existing system. I think "a few files" is going to be a *lot* of stuff. -- \\ 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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