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Re: ext2fs in boot method
From: |
James Morrison |
Subject: |
Re: ext2fs in boot method |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Oct 2002 09:06:03 -0700 (PDT) |
--- Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Currently, the GRUB boot commands in the default template,
> documentation etc refer to a /hurd/ext2fs which shouldn't
> necessarily be the filesystem we're using.
>
> What do you think about referring to /hurd/rootfs
> which is suposed to know what filesystem is being used?
>
> A simlink to ext2fs would just be okay for that,
> and save the documentation from being filesystem-specific
>
> --
> Robert Millan
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?
=====
James Morrison
University of Waterloo
Computer Science - Digital Hardware
2A co-op
http://hurd.dyndns.org
Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU
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