Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 21:12:50 -0400 From: "Allen Smith" <easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, drussell@saturn-tech.com, jflowers@ezo.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting from NT ? Message-ID: <9809252112.ZM8803@beatrice.rutgers.edu> In-Reply-To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> "Re: Booting from NT ?" (Sep 25, 8:35pm) References: <199809252232.PAA20186@usr04.primenet.com>
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On Sep 25, 8:35pm, Terry Lambert (possibly) wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Terry is quite fond of the myth he puts forward above, despite the fact > > that many people over the years have proven that FreeBSD runs quite > > happily from readonly media (me too). > > You have to change the rc scripts to not try to generate the /var/run > information, or some of the startups *will* fail. > > You can make it run with modifications, in other words. > > Without modifications, it limps. Umm... one generally finds that things in /var will _var_y, yes... I would suggest that having the stuff in /var be on seperate, writeable media makes sense (along with swap files, including space for a mfs /tmp). -Allen -- Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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