Re: XFS from SGI and OpenBSD

[Ted U <grendel@heorot.stanford.edu>]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Generic Player wrote:

> > One point I have, you can run an entire OpenBSD system with only
> ext2fs.
> > No need for FFS, though such a configuration is atypical.
> >
>
> Really?  I thought it had to boot from ffs?  How does one make a system
> like this, as I actually really want to.  I could take an existing
> system, add an ext2fs partition, and ( tar | tar ) everything from the
> running system over to that partition, but then how do I boot it?
> installboot is for ffs only according to the man page.

Haven't thought too much about how you load the kernel, but if it doesn't
find a disklabel, it should ask for root.  And a custom kernel can be told
to use ext2fs as root.

Until they fix GRUB or some other bootloader, this might be a little hard.
You could netboot, or use a floppy.





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