From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 24 15:19:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F54437B429 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:19:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f8OMJ2B04369; Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:19:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@freebsd.org) To: jcv@vbc.net Cc: wertejuk@mwcis.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot proccess In-Reply-To: References: <20010920000212.B60704@localhost.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010924151902K.jkh@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 15:19:02 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 16 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Tell me if I am wrong but from the floppy, the files kern.flp & > mfsroot.flp are compressed and then uncompressed into memory. > > If so, that means that the FreeBSD box is running this programs from the > RAM and not from the floppy, right ? Correct. They're running with the root device set to a memory filesystem (which has been initialized with the contents of mfsroot.flp). > If so, is it possible to do the same but from a hard disk instead of the > floppy ? That's generally how most FreeBSD systems boot, yes. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message