Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 00:56:26 +0300 From: Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net> To: Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> Cc: mips@freebsd.org, jan.augusta@fifejdy.cz Subject: Re: How to compile and install Freebsd to Routerstation PRO Message-ID: <20120402005626.b27929c0.ray@ddteam.net> In-Reply-To: <CACVs6=-evktpiRUFT-wCbwYnhDc2Q8SQhR_UvwTm-S_fpVr_oQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <20120401185845.9065dc3f@tchuza> <CACVs6=9%2BJpXvJKeeA0J55nfZQx3d679LArJH22LGUd89q45Cww@mail.gmail.com> <20120402003042.c67e423a.ray@ddteam.net> <CACVs6=-evktpiRUFT-wCbwYnhDc2Q8SQhR_UvwTm-S_fpVr_oQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:33:29 -0700 Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 14:30, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net> > wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:18:09 -0700 > > Juli Mallett <jmallett@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > >> Hi Jan, > >> > >> Do you want to boot the RS Pro from network, or from NAND? If from > >> network, there are probably instructions elsewhere that would be > >> more useful, and hopefully someone else knows where to link to (I > >> don't.) > >> > >> If you want to boot from NAND, things get a little tricky. FreeBSD > >> doesn't have usable NAND support yet, so you'll have to boot Linux > >> to copy the kernel to NAND flash, and you'll have to erase NAND > >> from the bootloader before doing that otherwise Linux may place > >> the FreeBSD kernel outside of the range that RouterBOOT is willing > >> to read from. Also, you kernel has to be under 4MB big for the > >> same reason. > > > > IIRC RSPro have 16M of NOR flash (cfi driver), not NAND :) > > Yes, you should ignore me. I had a massive brain-related failure. My > answers were about RB450G, the original question was about RS Pro. > Sorry for the noise — that's what I get for using both :) > > Someone else can say how to setup RS Pro. Luckily lots of people have > those and it sucks a lot less :) Yep, it is why we doing zrouter :) http://zrouter.org/ Jan, let me know if something not so clear to understand in our docs. WBW -- Aleksandr Rybalko <ray@ddteam.net>
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