Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 02:18:07 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using space in a DOS filesystem Message-ID: <199508221649.CAA27263@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199508221526.BAA13856@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 23, 95 01:26:05 am
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Bruce Evans stands accused of saying: > >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. > > The standard boot loader isn't going to work on it unless it is partition > (within another partition :-(). Fair enough. Under the circumstances, that shouldn't be too hard to manage. > >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? > > The mount of root would probably fail if the partition was invalid. I > guess you could put the partition boundaries in the data for the program > replaces the standard boot loader. How are you going to select where > to boot from? Standard boot managers should be able to handle the > partition within a partition method (:-(). I'm not sure I can parse that 8) The idea was to have some way of avoiding jamming a bogus partition entry into the partition table every time you wanted to boot. (due to issues with virus tools and the like.) Booting would probably be accomplished with fbsdboot under these circumstances. > 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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