Re: Bug#593467: grub-pc: add support for root ext2/xfs on GNU/kFreeBSD

[Colin Watson]

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?

> --- grub2-1.98+20100804.orig/util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in
> +++ grub2-1.98+20100804/util/grub.d/10_kfreebsd.in
> @@ -75,6 +75,22 @@
>    fi
>  
>    case "${kfreebsd_fs}" in
> +    ext2fs)
> +      test -e "${module_dir}/ext2fs.ko"
> +
> +      printf '%s\n' "${prepare_module_dir_cache}"
> +      cat << EOF
> +     kfreebsd_module_elf     ${module_dir_rel}/ext2fs.ko
> +EOF
> +    ;;
> +    xfs)
> +      test -e "${module_dir}/xfs.ko"
> +
> +      printf '%s\n' "${prepare_module_dir_cache}"
> +      cat << EOF
> +     kfreebsd_module_elf     ${module_dir_rel}/xfs.ko
> +EOF
> +    ;;
>      zfs)
>        test -e "${module_dir}/opensolaris.ko"
>        test -e "${module_dir}/zfs.ko"
> @@ -121,6 +137,7 @@
>  
>    case ${GRUB_FS} in
>      ufs1 | ufs2)        kfreebsd_fs=ufs ;;
> +    ext2)               kfreebsd_fs=ext2fs ;;
>      *)                  kfreebsd_fs=${GRUB_FS} ;;
>    esac
>  

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       address@hidden