2010/8/18, Colin Watson <cjwat...@ubuntu.com>:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:07:57PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> Since GNU/kFreeBSD switch to grub as the default bootloader, it is
>> almost possible to use an ext2 or xfs root filesystem. While there
>> is not a lot of interest in doing that, the patch to do it is quite
>> small. Could you please apply it in the next upload?
>
> Sending upstream first. Does this require copyright assignment?
I'd rather make it generic, something like this. Does it work for you?
This has interesting side-effects, like for example it would be possible to
build UFS as a module.
--
Robert Millan
2010-08-20 Robert Millan <r...@gnu.org>
* util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in (kfreebsd_entry): Add generic module
load routine.
Map GRUB `ext2' to kFreeBSD `ext2fs'.
=== modified file 'util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in'
--- util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in 2010-08-08 14:27:58 +0000
+++ util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in 2010-08-19 21:54:59 +0000
@@ -92,6 +92,14 @@ EOF
kfreebsd_module ${rel_dirname}/zfs/zpool.cache type=/boot/zfs/zpool.cache
EOF
;;
+ *)
+ ls "${module_dir}/${kfreebsd_fs}.ko" > /dev/null
+
+ printf '%s\n' "${prepare_module_dir_cache}"
+ cat << EOF
+ kfreebsd_module_elf ${module_dir_rel}/${kfreebsd_fs}.ko
+EOF
+ ;;
esac
cat << EOF
@@ -121,8 +129,9 @@ while [ "x$list" != "x" ] ; do
fi
case ${GRUB_FS} in
- ufs1 | ufs2) kfreebsd_fs=ufs ;;
- *) kfreebsd_fs=${GRUB_FS} ;;
+ ufs1 | ufs2) kfreebsd_fs=ufs ;;
+ ext2) kfreebsd_fs=ext2fs ;;
+ *) kfreebsd_fs=${GRUB_FS} ;;
esac
case ${GRUB_FS} in
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