Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 19:13:10 +0200 From: Niclas Zeising <lothrandil@n00b.apagnu.se> To: "Yuan, Jue" <yuanjue02@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is mfsroot.flp ? Message-ID: <44EDDE26.5060708@n00b.apagnu.se> In-Reply-To: <200608242352.58682.yuanjue02@gmail.com> References: <200608242352.58682.yuanjue02@gmail.com>
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Yuan, Jue wrote: > Hi all. > > I just wonder where mfsroot.flp is going now. It seems it has been replaced by > boot.flp and kernX.flp. why? > > What I really want is to get a mfsroot to embed into a FreeBSD kernel, since > kernel has option MD_ROOT to support this. I have found mfsroot.gz in boot/, > but after uncompressing, it turns out to be as big as 4.2MB, which is too big > for me. :-( Does anyone knows how to create a custom mfsroot, say which files > do I need to put in to it, to make it not larger than 4MB? > > Any idea would be greatly appreciated. :-) > The mfsroot.flp has been replaced in favour of kernX.flp. It was sometime when the mfsroot grew bigger that the 1.44KiB-limit. What someone did was making the kernel splitable over multiple floppies, and still bootable, iirc. Why do you need a mfsroot instead of an ordinary /? Are you planing on making a live cd? Just out of curiosity. Regards! //Niclas
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