From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (971110.SGI.8.8.8/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via SMTP id MAA120819 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:45:28 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id MAA02231 for linux-list; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:43:26 -0800 Received: from soyuz.wellington.sgi.com (soyuz.wellington.sgi.com [134.14.64.194]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id MAA02192 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 1998 12:43:19 -0800 Received: from wellington.sgi.com by soyuz.wellington.sgi.com via ESMTP (950413.SGI.8.6.12/940406.SGI) id JAA19690; Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:40:00 +1300 Message-ID: <34C7AE9F.25A38E49@wellington.sgi.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:39:59 +1300 From: Alistair Lambie X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03C-SGI [en] (X11; I; IRIX 6.5-ALPHA-1274191040 IP22) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex deVries CC: SGI Linux Subject: Re: root-be-0.03.tar.gz References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Alex deVries wrote: > > On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Mike Shaver wrote: > > Alex deVries wrote: > > I _must_ start working on EFS again. I assume I've missed the 2.2 > > freeze, but I could still help a lot of people by getting off my a** and > > finishing it. My apologies to those who are waiting on it. > > Let me know if I can help. > > Here's a question: is it possible to boot off of the local disk without > the image being on an EFS partition? Will I ever be able to have my > machine have no EFS partition? How will ARC find the image? > Couldn't we just put the vmlinux in the volume header and load it from there....in fact you probably wouldn't even need sash. Use dvhtool under irix to add the image. You may need to make a bigger volume header to fit it. I'm not 100% sure if this will work, but it's worth a try. Cheers, Alistair -- Alistair Lambie alambie@wellington.sgi.com Silicon Graphics New Zealand SGI Voicemail: 2431455 Level 5, Cigna House, Ph: +64-4-494 6325 40 Mercer St, Wellington, NZ Fax: +64-4-494 6321