From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 6 04:08:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E38237B401 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:08:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (allcaps.org [216.240.173.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DF9C43FD7 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:08:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsder@allcaps.org) Received: from mail.allcaps.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.allcaps.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1210692FAF for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 07:08:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (bsder@localhost)h66B8Fef018274 for ; Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:08:15 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: mail.allcaps.org: bsder owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 04:08:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: MD_ROOT examples? X-BeenThere: freebsd-small@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 11:08:14 -0000 Could someone point me to some examples for how to use MD_ROOT with 5.1 Release? What I am trying to do is create a system which: 1) Boots off of a hard drive 2) Copies a full filesystem into RAM (I've got lots) 3) Boots the kernel and mounts the RAM as its filesystem 4) Shuts down the hard drive completely I've seen a few things for creating read-only systems, but I don't want to have to access the media after boot. There are some references to the old MFS stuff, but I'm not finding any obvious references to doing similar stuff with MD. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks, -a