Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 18:14:45 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using space in a DOS filesystem Message-ID: <199508220844.SAA26301@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199508220729.RAA28551@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 22, 95 05:29:12 pm
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > >But if the slab _is_ the boot device, how do we read the tools from it? > > With difficulty. Don't boot from it. That more or less rules that approach out completely. We're trying to do an ersatz partition that can do everything a "real" partition does. That's going to have to include booting. > It would be relatively easy to check the partition once you have located > it. You might be able to boot from the DOS file system, run some > utilities, mount an mfs root and create vn devices on it, mount the vn > file, and chroot() to a nicer file system. I don't want the utilities > for this in the kernel. I can understand that. How would you feel about being able to recognise one of these ersatz partitions if the info were passed in to the kernel at bootstrap time? > Bruce -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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