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From: V050KY8G@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: RE: ST Minix -- Mounting the hard disk on /
Message-ID: <5324@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 11 Nov 88 06:03:19 GMT
Sender: mmdf@udel.EDU
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The message written to the newsgroup concerned having the root of the file
system be a hard disk partition on MINIX-ST.  Although I work with PC AT 
MINIX, I assume it is sufficiently similar enough to make an intelligent 
comment.

For my system, I changed the #define's for BOOT_DEV and ROOT_DEV and 
recompiled.  Actually, what happens in my system, as set up now, is the 
RAMdisk is somewhat unnecessarily loaded from a hard disk partition, then 
wiped out with mkfs, then mounted on /tmp.  The root of the file system is 
another hard disk partition, and is so declared at load/boot time by
ROOT_DEV being "compiled in."

Seems to me that perhaps a more elegant solution would be to use chroot() 
to move the root file system to a hard disk partition, perhaps after it is 
mounted (could it be done something like chroot to /hd-mnt-dir/dev/hd0 ??).

Has anyone else implemented using the RAMdisk as mounted on /tmp ?????