From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:24:59 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail.linuxcare.com ([216.88.157.164]:5857 "EHLO mail.linuxcare.com") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 21:24:58 +0200 Received: from linuxcare.com (dmz-gw.linuxcare.com [216.88.157.161]) by mail.linuxcare.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 569C78FBD0; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:19:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D935DE6.7020206@linuxcare.com> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:20:06 -0400 From: Alex deVries Organization: Linuxcare User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Florian Lohoff Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Format of bootable Indy CDs? References: <3D92B80A.3080802@linuxcare.com> <20020926171033.GA13337@paradigm.rfc822.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 271 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: adevries@linuxcare.com Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Florian Lohoff wrote: > The firmware loads an ecoff file from a volume header - The volume > header is a special partition with a "minimalistic" filesystem > in it - This can be modified by "dvhtool". Okay. I see an example of that mentioned in your mail in http://lists.debian.org/debian-mips/2002/debian-mips-200204/msg00056.html . That seems to match with an EFS volume header. So making a tool that writes the 8k volume header is easy. If I understand properly, that points to a filename on the EFS filesystem that follows it. What open source tools do we have to create such an EFS filesystem? > If you plan to work on this - Feel free to come around in > Oldenburg this weekend - We will have a Kernel Hacker meeting > in the University Oldenburg. I'll bring a Burner and CD-RW's > with me to test this. Sadly, I have other plans this weekend. - Alex -- Alex deVries Principal Architect, Linuxcare Canada, Inc. (613) 562 2759 Linuxcare. Simplifying Server Consolidation.