Re: new parted version available for testing ... (fwd)

[Roman Z. <zi...@li...>]

Hi,

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

> Do someone know if it is possible to autodetect the block size as well
> as the prealloc and reserved values ?

The block size can be guessed by verifying the checksum of the root block 
(e.g. affs does that), but the other values are only in the RDB.

> Then i will had formatting support for affs and asfs, and it would be
> possible to create a new bootable system from linux without ever going
> to amigaos/morphos.

BTW I have some basic affs tools at
linux-apus.sf.net/test/affstools-0.1.tar.gz
It's at least enough to create an affs file system, I played a bit with 
larger block sizes, but that wasn't successfull, maybe my amiga os version 
doesn't support that.

> Now, what is the situation of the boot loader on amiga/m68k and
> amiga/apus ? Do you have a lilo-like thingy, or still the ami/apusboot
> program we used back then ? If the later is the case, it should be
> possible to cross compile it, and then to make a debian package with it,
> installing it in the affs formatted /boot partition or a affs
> /boot/amiboot or something such.

Lilo can be be cross compiled, for a complete compile you need a 
m68k-linux cross compiler, but I included precompiled sources. It works 
fine for linux-ppc. As Geert mentioned it still needs a small patch for 
the kernel.

bye, Roman