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Re: ext2fs in boot method
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Robert Millan |
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Re: ext2fs in boot method |
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Thu, 17 Oct 2002 03:24:08 +0200 |
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On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:06:03AM -0700, James Morrison wrote:
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> What about the situation where you don't boot using the /hurd from the root
> filesystem. So, device:hd0s1 has /boot and a /hurd, and device:hd0s2 has /.
> Now if hd0s1 is ext2 and hd0s2 is ufs what would rootfs point to?
In that situation the user would know what he/she's doing and adjust
menu.lst accordingly. I still think that having a default option is
good for being filesystem-independant.
Perhaps this can be improved later. maybe with some sort of generic fs
server that identifies filesystems and returns the information to GRUB
in some way, so that GRUB can launch the adequate filesystem server for
that particular partition. (excuse me if this is completely insane, i
don't know well what i'm talking about)
--
Robert Millan
"5 years from now everyone will be running
free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5"
Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992