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Re: *BSD port of debian potentially easier than Hurd port



Jonathan Walther <krooger@debian.org> wrote:

> the BSD kernel has ext2 support already... Can't it boot off an ext2
> partition?

No, it can't. The bootstrap works through the filesystem and it doesn't
understand ext2. Maybe you could engineer LILO to boot the bsd kernel
directly, but an ext2 root filesystem isn't supported either.

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