Hi At 11:47 12.11.2002, you wrote:
I believe syslinux only supports M$DOS formattet filesystems. So in order to boot from that medium and using syslinux I believe you have to stick with M$DOS format. If all you want to do is to store information persistently then you are free to use whatever you decide to load a driver for.>> This leads me to believe that the filesystem I created on Redhat is >> not Bering compatible so I tried # ./mkfs.minix -c /dev/hdc which >> gives me >> >> # ./mkfs.minix -c /dev/hdc1 >> BusyBox v0.60.3 (2002.06.08-17:56+0000) multi-call binary >> >> Usage: mkfs.minix [-c | -l filename] [-nXX] [-iXX] /dev/name [blocks] >> >> The man page for mkfs.minix is no help at this point. What am I >> missing? > >Umm.... Minix is a "virtual filesystem" not possible to partition an actual HD with..... ie. RamDrive >(if I remember correctly). You originally formatted the drive ext2 as I remember correctly, which BeringMinix is a true filesystem. Due to its small footprint it is normally used for ramdrives. And I also think that originally you could boot from it.
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