Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:00:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Cobalt RaQ 4 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907012157380.1718@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20090701174532.GA14108@nognu.de> References: <20090701174532.GA14108@nognu.de>
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> As i figured out, there is a ROM on it with a mini-Linux, that will > look for an ext2/ext3 filesystem and for an /vmlinux.bz2 on /boot. > Then it boots from there. This is really strange and seems to rule out > FreeBSD completely. Looks like you'll have to rewrite /boot/loader sources to 1) access disk with it's "minilinux" interface, or directly by hardware 2) to look like vmlinux image. If it's ELF - should not be a problem, if not - look how linux kernel makefile convert ELF to this format and do the same. This ROM code may do some assumption where to load image in memory. If so - you have to link if to the same address. Not easy way i think but not that difficult if you can write C programs. > > However, I can't believe that noone on earth hadn't FreeBSD running > on it :-) > > Any hint would be appreciated. As an alternative, i could live with > OpenBSD/NetBSD too. i would even prefer linux than those ;)
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