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Subject: Re: Bigger boot block size?
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On Friday 09 September 2005 03:11 am, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 02:18:44PM -0400, Jung-uk Kim wrote:
> >I have been working on boot2 recently.  I faced constant problem
> > with boot2 size limitation.  Can we have bigger boot block size
> > (aka BBSIZE)?  In the future, we may have to support different
> > file system to boot from and we won't have any space to add the
> > support without dropping UFS1 support.
>
> I don't see why we need a one-size-fits-all boot2.  boot2 has to be
> installed onto a specific filesystem so there's no reason why we
> can't have different boot2 binaries for CD9660, UFS1, UFS2 etc.

Huh?  boot2 is not installed onto a specific file system and cd9660 is 
not supported natively AFAIK.  '-C' option only lets you mount cd9660 
as a root file system.

Jung-uk Kim