From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
ext3-users@redhat.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext3-2.4-0.9.6
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 00:58:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010812005850.T30381@visi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B75DE86.EEDFAFFB@zip.com.au>, <3B75DE86.EEDFAFFB@zip.com.au> <20010811184640.B17435@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> <3B75E1F9.2BF5D4B6@zip.com.au>, <3B75E1F9.2BF5D4B6@zip.com.au> <20010811191539.C17435@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net> <3B75E9E3.FAAF05CC@zip.com.au> <20010811194744.B17668@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20010811194744.B17668@cpe-24-221-152-185.az.sprintbbd.net>; from trini@kernel.crashing.org on Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 07:47:44PM -0700
On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 07:47:44PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2001 at 07:28:51PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Well, LILO works OK with an unclean ext3 FS because it goes straight to
> > the underlying blocks. If both grub and OF parse the superblock compatibility
> > bits then they could fail in this manner.
>
> Both GRUB and yaboot can read directly from the fs. It's possible to boot
> a kernel right out of OF from an HFS partition (which I had to do to get
> the box up again). It might be worth documenting this someplace.
Same goes for SILO too. Not sure if SILO even works with ext3 right now
(uses libext2fs, so I assume so).
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-12 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-08-12 1:40 ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andrew Morton
2001-08-12 1:46 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Tom Rini
2001-08-12 1:55 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andrew Morton
2001-08-12 2:15 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Tom Rini
2001-08-12 2:28 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andrew Morton
2001-08-12 2:47 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Tom Rini
2001-08-12 4:58 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2001-08-13 18:15 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andreas Dilger
2001-08-12 2:38 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Ralf Baechle
2001-08-12 3:10 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Andrew Morton
2001-08-13 17:56 ` ext3-2.4-0.9.6 Stephen C. Tweedie
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