From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 25 10:13:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18DDC16A4DA for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:13:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F1A643D62 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:13:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yuanjue02@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so1058363pye for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:13:04 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:organization:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=ozLNUn4trlYFt6iHSeqyGd5N6ywqLaQCL/fvDFoXoaTn9MzKyGzL0/M61YXSIaxnbyz2EMErtPJ9og0Ibn2OjbcoktWy9ISKSNUrSbDUi5pR76wq9cR7MHdMvwudDTiqbMzuOzMcOtHGFZz59JYqG5jvoSsDjIhQXM2I/FxHuhw= Received: by 10.35.126.7 with SMTP id d7mr4771782pyn; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:13:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?222.48.99.49? ( [124.172.191.114]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id f75sm2197010pye.2006.08.25.03.13.02; Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:13:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Yuan, Jue" Organization: Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:15:17 +0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <200608242352.58682.yuanjue02@gmail.com> <44EDDE26.5060708@n00b.apagnu.se> In-Reply-To: <44EDDE26.5060708@n00b.apagnu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608251815.17816.yuanjue02@gmail.com> Cc: Niclas Zeising Subject: Re: Where is mfsroot.flp ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 10:13:18 -0000 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