Re: FAT and RDB

[KIYOHARA Takashi <kiyohara%kk.iij4u.or.jp@localhost>]

Hi! Frank,


From: Frank Wille <frank%phoenix.owl.de@localhost>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:41:53 +0200

> On Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:50:05 +0900 (JST)
> KIYOHARA Takashi <kiyohara%kk.iij4u.or.jp@localhost> wrote:

> > Please support to load from FAT on RDB partition.
>
> That's unusual, but ok, why not?

MorphOS can access to read/write to FAT.  It very convenient.


> > I create FAT on RDB partition by MorphOS 2.5.  And ofwboot succeed to
> > load the netbsd from there.
> > [...]
> > My diff:
> > 
> > Index: rdb.c
> > [...]
> 
> The diffs are ok. Please commit them.

I will commit at this weekend.


> > By the way, how create DOST_NBR partition?
> > Do you forcibly make it with the binary editor?  For instance, use bvi
> > and the DOST_MSD partition.  ;-)
> 
> By using the HDConfig program of MorphOS 2.x. There is a cycle-gadget
> to choose the file system type for a partition. AFAIK you can also
> select MSDOS file systems.
> 
> For others not listed there, select the file system "Custom". Now you can
> enter the 32-bit hex ID of your file system type. Which is 0x4d534400
> for MSDOS or 0x4e425307 for a NetBSD FFS root partition.

I could create NetBSD FFS root partition (0x4e4252xx) by HDConfig.
                                                ^^ ;-)

Also I wait your 'options RDB_PARTITIONS' support.  ;-)
Thanks,
--
kiyohara