In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kirk McKusick wr
ites:
>You will have to ask Puol-Henning Kamp, but I do not believe that
>he has yet put together a bootstrap for the i386 platform that can
>boot from a UFS2 filesystem. As such, I believe that you are
>required to have a UFS1 root on the i386 at this time. I have
>copied Poul-Henning Kamp so that he can correct me if I am incorrect
>on this point.
It is possible to boot UFS2 on i386, but the bootblocks are larger
than 8k and the foot-shooting potential is therefore over my threshold
for something I want to try to rush into 5.0.
The basic procedure is:
compile boot2 with BOOT2_UFS=yes
change the BBSIZE #define in the disklabel program and recompile.
Make sure you don't trash your filesystem when you write the
new bootblocks.
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