Hi Great news!
Thanks for your reply! Can't wait for PHcoder to finish his work! Panarchy On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 5:17 AM, Joey Korkames <joey+li...@kidfixit.com> wrote: >> What's the advantage of booting with an mfsroot? > > You can make a minimal fbsd system in the mfsroot that is smart enough to > "init_chroot" from a SMB/NFS netmount, or from a cloop file stored a CD or > http-sever (cached to a tmpfs (ramdisk)). Mine also unionfs-mounts a tmpfs > to what ever root that is used so you can make changes in ram and not on the > source root mount. > > This is also what Frenzy does - http://frenzy.org.ua/eng/ > > I don't know if HeX unionfs-mounts or not - > http://www.rawpacket.org/projects/hex > >> >> Also, will it be advantageous to me? >> > > I find it useful for executing FreeBSD rescues and where I need to pkg_add > tools that are not already on the rootfs. > >> (FreeBSD installations contained within a UFS, UFS2 &/or ZFS logical >> partition) >> > > I didn't think of it at first, but the mfsroot could also have all the > smarts contained in it for mounting and init_chroot'ing a ZFS root. > > You still have to load grub and the kernel/mfsroot from a grub-supported fs, > but I was very pleased to hear that phcoder is working on that! > > -joey > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
