Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:43:57 -0800 (PST) From: "Ben Kirkpatrick, ELI" <blkirk@float.eli.net> To: Philippe Regnauld <regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CCD & booting on / Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980303092919.7864C-100000@float.eli.net> In-Reply-To: <19980303100327.54315@deepo.prosa.dk>
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On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Philippe Regnauld wrote: > My question is: is there no workaround/unspeakable hack that > could be made, with CCD in the kernel, for the bootblocks to read > from the first of an N-part mirror, just to get past the boot ? Here's another idea (very out there). During boot, I don't think there's any way of safely reading two copies of the boot blocks. But, you could have the boot code check several places for a kernel and do checksums on them. Then pick a good one and boot. I've never tried this, but you'd have to umount+mount / again... Perhaps have an /altroot or a mfs to accomplish this early in the rc's. Okey, I'd better quit now, my crack-tablet-dispenser is broken. --Ben Kirkpatrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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