Subject: re: Sparc bootloader capable of reading ufs2 root partition?
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/02/2003 13:00:02 
   On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:34:59PM +0200, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
   > Should the (secondary) bootloader be able to read the kernel from a
   > ufs2 partition?
   
   Is the firmware able to load the primary bootloader from a UFS2 partition?

sparc stage one (bootxx) is, last i heard, still a 'load these blocks out of
the disk' type booter... ie, it has no idea of fileysystems anyway.  we need
to extend /boot to deal with UFS2 i guess.



.mrg.