Linux-kernel mailing list archive 1998-10,: Re: Merging EXT2 and El Torito

# Re: Merging EXT2 and El Torito

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
9 Mar 1998 14:25:43 GMT

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Followup to: <Pine.SUN.3.96.980309060129.6091D-100000@amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
By author: "C. Scott Ananian" <cananian@lcs.mit.edu>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> I think a better option would be to create an 'El Torito' boot program
> that lives in the 'special' blocks. The root filesystem can be ISO9660
> without problems. Make the 'special' directories (/dev, for example)
> loopback ext2 filesystems which are stored on cd as ISO9660 files.
> Alternatively, you could use devfs.
> --Scott
>

No need to. ISO 9660/RockRidge handles device nodes just fine.

-hpa

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