Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 14:28:40 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libstand ext2fs.c Message-ID: <20000501142840.D43222@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <95516.957208562@localhost> References: <20000429214311.A11995@prism.flugsvamp.com> <95516.957208562@localhost>
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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
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