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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:29:40 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
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Subject: Re: prom changes for ext3 support
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:17:43 -0700 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
<maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:

> Hello Warren,
> 
> Just want to make sure that there will be no confusion. After the
> changes to PROM to support ext3 boot, it should support both bsd and
> ext3 and should detect the type of the partition and filesystem at
> runtime.

I don't think it needs to detect.  I'm happy if there is an environment
variable that specifies to boot linux or boot bsd.  If it doesn't work,
can't find the partition or the file, then too bad.  But I do want to
be able to specify the file to boot, ie., I want to be able to boot an
arbitrary file on the compact flash, or at least an arbitrary file in a
specific directory.  Currently it only boots /bsd IIRC.

Cheers,

a
