Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:35:07 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Aditya Godbole <aag.lists@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ramdisk support Message-ID: <20061115133507.GE19881@rambler-co.ru> In-Reply-To: <2f3a439f0611150355n3dd81845ydbeb0a7b597fb087@mail.gmail.com> References: <2f3a439f0611142305n441d3adwf7738ae40f9103e3@mail.gmail.com> <200611151101.kAFB1c8a089422@lurza.secnetix.de> <2f3a439f0611150355n3dd81845ydbeb0a7b597fb087@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:25:36PM +0530, Aditya Godbole wrote: > On 11/15/06, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > >Aditya Godbole wrote: > > > Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd? > > > What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram? > > > >You mean a diskless setup? I think there's a detailed > >description of diskless setups in the FreeBSD Handbook. > >You might also want to look at the diskless(8) manpage. > > > > Hi, > > I was looking for something like initrd support of Linux or the > mdsetimage of NetBSD. > I have no disc or network card support for my hardware at the moment. > Well, how are you going to boot your system without a disk and network then? We support disk booting, and diskless (network) booting, also support CD-ROM and floppy booting. What of these do you need? Like others have said, we can load kernels with an embedded root filesystem image; the image can either be read-write or read-only; in the latter case, it can also be compressed with geom_uzip(4). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWxeKqRfpzJluFF4RAnFVAJ9QnSiGxAf6QwmKc83PeIMWsCxzOQCeOoqN uCXs+DwZltNmNyc/0R4zaAw= =GVOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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