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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Running FreeBSD and Linux on same machine?
Date: 1 Dec 1995 00:20:41 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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alexandr@stimpy.eecis.udel.edu (Jerry Alexandratos) wrote:
] :the ext2fs filesystem is too new to go into a stable
] :release so it's in the 2.2 lineage (-current)
]
] Is there anyway to make that the default fs for FreeBSD and then
] install on top of that filesystem?
Yes. Modify the ext2fs to support root mounting and add the
appropriate checks to the /sys/i386/i386/*.c files to let it
know it should try root mounts of ext2fs.
Then modify the boot blocks to be able to read a kernel off of
an ext2fs root (or use the Linux boot blocks and modify them to
pass the correct stack data for the kernel entry).
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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