Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 06:31:45 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <199809250631.XAA14619@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809250251.EAA11481@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Sep 25, 98 04:51:26 am
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> > Note that the use of the NT boot loader simplifies this, since it can > > have a very large boot image that it loads from (see the handbook). > > i wonder just how large... because if it can contain a full kernel one > can simply construct a boot made by a small relocator and a regular > kernel. One full cylinder. > > The real pain here is that FreeBSD won't boot on a pure read-only > > file store without modification (the existance of which was posted > > about several times by the ROM/FLASH people). > > uh ? booting the kernel obviously works because i have done it reading > from a CD or the network -- and a readonly root also seems to work, > because I have been using diskless with a readonly root for a long time. Right. Now try to make the /var/run/pid files... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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