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

[Sven L. <sve...@wa...>]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:42:12PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 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.

Seems a nice trick. But it would be a problem if the blocks after the
one are written only by 0s.

I guess you could make some guess for the other
values by testing various values when searching for 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.

Ok, thanks, i will have a look. It is GPLed code, right, and there is no
problem with myself inspiring me from it for writing parted code ?

> > 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.

Ok.

Friendly,

Sven Luther