Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:15:06 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo), drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <199809250715.AAA00938@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 06:31:45 -0000." <199809250631.XAA14619@usr01.primenet.com>
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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. Ick. Not enough. > > > 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... You don't need these to boot, or to run in most cases. Procfs largely obsoletes pid files, see eg. 'killall'. You can live without changing permissions on tty/pty device nodes in some (not all) cases too. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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