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Re: playing with bootxx_ext2fs



> This is not how NetBSD normally does things. You could get away with
> it by mounting wd0c as / later, but everything else (starting with
> boot blocks) will be seriously confused and probably unable to find your
> root partition.

Makes sense.  This points back to the question if phase 1 boostrap
(bootxx) actually needs a disklabel (sector 1 of the partition) to finds
its babies.

> Why are you doing things in such a strange way?

Because I though I can^^  For fun, for learning, and eventually for
production although I do not know how EXT2 would badly scale compared to
FFSv2.


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