Subject: Re: Can sparc boot from ffs2 root partition?
To: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/21/2004 14:48:50
Thus spake David Laight ("DL> ") sometime Today...

DL> On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 10:27:52PM +0100, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:
DL> > Hi!
DL> >
DL> > Or must it be ffs1?
DL>
DL> I don't think the boot proms will (ever) understand ffsv2.
DL> And I believe the boot prom has to understand the root filesystem.
DL>
DL> IMHO ffsv2 (as included in netbsd) has no benefits over the ffsv1 code.

Hmmm.  I thought the boot proms only needed to be able to find the disk-
label...?  Is the label offset different between the two as well?


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