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Re: darwin on intel / Linux UFS mount

On Monday, Jan 2001 at 21:27:28 Patrick Strasser wrote:
>
> I was able to get the bootpartition (abPartition) to give some output
> (the screen with 10 seconds until auto-boot, -v for debug, ? for help)
> but due to lack of space and free partitions on my first drive (primary
> a8 on 2nd drive wasn't found) I had no a8Partition and couldn' complete
> the boot. The Machine is a P3/350 Mhz with 128 Mb Ram, RivaTNT, UDMA 8
> Gb Harddisk, Intel 440BX Chipset.

Yup, that's a problem. No kernel, no boot.

> On a P1/90 Mhz, 16 Mb Ram, miro Videocard, 1 Gb (PIO 4), Via Chipset it
> refused to boot.

Any chance we could get a little more description? Did the booter start?
Did the kernel start (possibly because of the VIA chipset)?
Did the kernel start, but was unable to mount /? (very likely))

> Via Linux I was able to mount the a8-part. . I used 'mount -t ufs -o
> ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda4 /mnt'. It's the same option as for
> Free|Net|OpenBSD and give rw access. I haven't tried to write, as I have
> no possibility to verify the result.

Yup, that should work. The rw trashes the filesystem if the write succeeds.
I've seen the ufs code in Linux hang the machine on a write...

> Anyone ever tried the Hurd on Darwin / Darwin/Intel?

Hurd on Darwin? Is that like Linux on Darwin? I have a feeling you're
being misled by seeing the word "mach". Just because Darwin uses Mach,
it does not mean it is using Mach in a microkernel sense. Darwin is not
just a server on top of Mach. All parts of the kernel share the same
address space.

Rob



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