Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:15:17 +0800 From: "Yuan, Jue" <yuanjue02@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Niclas Zeising <lothrandil@n00b.apagnu.se> Subject: Re: Where is mfsroot.flp ? Message-ID: <200608251815.17816.yuanjue02@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44EDDE26.5060708@n00b.apagnu.se> References: <200608242352.58682.yuanjue02@gmail.com> <44EDDE26.5060708@n00b.apagnu.se>
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On Friday 25 August 2006 01:13, Niclas Zeising wrote: > 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. > Thanks for the info. :-) > Why do you need a mfsroot instead of an ordinary /? Are you planing on > making a live cd? Just out of curiosity. > I need a kernel with mfsroot embedded in it so that I could have the ability to install FreeBSD after booting from that kernel. -- Best Regards Yuan, Jue @ http://www.yuanjue.net
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