Subject: Re: Can sparc boot from ffs2 root partition?
To: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/21/2004 22:27:16
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Or must it be ffs1?

I don't think the boot proms will (ever) understand ffsv2.
And I believe the boot prom has to understand the root filesystem.

IMHO ffsv2 (as included in netbsd) has no benefits over the ffsv1 code.


	David

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