From owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 09:20:36 2005 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 D975616A4E7 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 09:20:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mbox1.network-i.net (pop32.network-i.net [212.21.121.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8EA9E43D76 for ; Mon, 9 May 2005 09:20:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 51163 invoked from network); 9 May 2005 09:20:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.1.134?) (212.21.99.52) by newmail.network-i.net with SMTP; 9 May 2005 09:20:34 -0000 Message-ID: <427F2BA6.1020204@thingy.com> Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 10:21:42 +0100 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (Windows/20040502) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Fwd: MD_ROOT and syslinux?] 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: Mon, 09 May 2005 09:20:37 -0000 Hi Folks, Has anyone tried using a FreeBSD 5.x kernel with MD_ROOT, and booting off a FAT-formatted media with something like syslinux? I'd like to be able to download new fs-images to a flash-booting system and still have the ability to select which image to boot (something like Cisco IOS images). Ideally the flash would be readable with a regular PC (hence FAT) for upgrading too. All the info I can find on this type of kernel+mfsroot booting is for PXE rather than a local image... can anyone point me in the right direction? I'm also concerned that there might be a maximum size for the md_root device - my 'root' will actually be around 100MB in size - is there an issue with large md_roots? Thanks for any pointers, Best Regards, Howard