From owner-cvs-all Mon May 1 12:24:52 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4AFA37BD44; Mon, 1 May 2000 12:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA51680; Mon, 1 May 2000 14:28:40 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:28:40 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Jonathan Lemon , Greg Lehey , Jonathan Lemon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs.c Message-ID: <20000501142840.D43222@prism.flugsvamp.com> References: <20000429214311.A11995@prism.flugsvamp.com> <95516.957208562@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <95516.957208562@localhost> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. 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. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message