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Date:      Tue, 1 Oct 2002 19:37:45 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        jlouis@diku.dk
Cc:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Booting from swap
Message-ID:  <20021002023745.GA22333@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021001231430.GA21620@diku.dk>
References:  <20021001225235.GA21008@diku.dk> <20021001190903.I218@locore.ca> <20021001231430.GA21620@diku.dk>

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On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 01:14:30AM +0200, jlouis@diku.dk wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 07:09:03PM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> > Apparently, On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 12:52:35AM +0200,
> > 	jlouis@diku.dk said words to the effect of;
> > 
> > > Is there an image from which it is possible to boot from a swap
> > > partition of another operating system?
> > 
> > No, just for netbooting or from cdrom.  Why?
> 
> Plain curiosity. I can do with netboot. My old U1 has no CDROM drive. It
> sports a running OS though, so it would had been aesier if I could
> dd a boot image unto the swap partition and fire from there, than to
> configure the other box for doing netboots.
> 
> Now. is it planned for the 5.0 release? If not, I might be interested in
> trying to do it myself.

We don't suport the SCSI controller in the U1 (or U2).

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