[openbeos] Re: makebootfloppy

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 06:32:02 +0100 (MET)

> Not sure what we could do from that... wondering about bootp... :)
> I'm not sure at all how the kernel deals with the bfs addon in the 
> boot.tgz 
> file (I mean does it reloads it from the freshly mounted /boot ?), 
> but maybe 
> we could use it for testing the new bfs driver, could it be compiled 
> for BeOS 
> too.

We can always mount any BFS partition with the new driver instead of 
the old one.
And sure, the BFS driver the loader contains is only a minimal BFS 
driver to be able to load the kernel. The file system is loaded on 
demand from that partition.

Adios...
   Axel.



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