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Date:      Fri, 29 Nov 2002 23:16:51 -0800
From:      Manfred Antar <null@pozo.com>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Robert Watson <rwatson@tislabs.com>, re@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Subject:   Re: Update to UFS2 Superblock Format 
Message-ID:  <5.2.0.9.2.20021129231408.00ac35f8@pozo.com>
In-Reply-To: <200211300711.gAU7Bt59078123@beastie.mckusick.com>
References:  <Your message of "Fri, 29 Nov 2002 22:57:12 PST." <5.2.0.9.2.20021129222331.00a79090@pozo.com>

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At 11:11 PM 11/29/2002 -0800, Kirk McKusick wrote:
>You will have to ask Puol-Henning Kamp, but I do not believe that 
>he has yet put together a bootstrap for the i386 platform that can 
>boot from a UFS2 filesystem. As such, I believe that you are
>required to have a UFS1 root on the i386 at this time. I have
>copied Poul-Henning Kamp so that he can correct me if I am incorrect
>on this point.
>
>        Kirk McKusick

Ah
No wonder, I tried editing the /sys/boot/i386/boot2/Makefile to enable UFS2 bootblock
but then disklabel complained that boot2 was too big.
I will have to revert to UFS1
Thanks
Manfred

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