Subject: Re: [linux-mac68k] Re: Booter for Mac (fwd from netbsd/mac68k)
To: None <bwildasi@csulb.edu>
From: Ken Nakata <knakata@itpjp.co.jp>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/09/1998 16:39:39
brian wildasinn wrote:
> 
> I'm right now using ext2fs partitions with NetBSD. Is ext2 different than
> ELF?

Yes.  As a matter of fact, they have nothing to do with each other. 
Ext2fs is a filesystem and ELF is a binary executable file format.

> A while ago the NetBSD kernel source code had ext2 filesystem support, but
> for some reason was never activated for 1.3.2, so seeing the setting in the
> "current" kernel source code, I recompiled my NetBSD-1.3.2 kernel to work
> with that Linux file system:  Seems to work for me. But maybe that isn't what
> your referring to?

I'm afraid not.

Ken