On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:46:23PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 03:16:03PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > 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?
> >
>
> As I have been told on IRC, XFS support is only read-only, so there is
> no point on adding root support for it yet. ext2 support works in read
> write mode, and has been tested as root. Please find an updated patch
> below.
And here is the same patch with a changelog entry as requested on IRC.
2010-08-20 Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net>
* util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in: Translate ext2 into ext2fs.
(kfreebsd_entry): On ext2 root, load `ext2fs.ko'
--- grub2-1.98+20100804.orig/util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in
+++ grub2-1.98+20100804/util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@
fi
case "${kfreebsd_fs}" in
+ ext2fs)
+ test -e "${module_dir}/ext2fs.ko"
+
+ printf '%s\n' "${prepare_module_dir_cache}"
+ cat << EOF
+ kfreebsd_module_elf ${module_dir_rel}/ext2fs.ko
+EOF
+ ;;
zfs)
test -e "${module_dir}/opensolaris.ko"
test -e "${module_dir}/zfs.ko"
@@ -121,6 +129,7 @@
case ${GRUB_FS} in
ufs1 | ufs2) kfreebsd_fs=ufs ;;
+ ext2) kfreebsd_fs=ext2fs ;;
*) kfreebsd_fs=${GRUB_FS} ;;
esac
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