From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 15 13:35:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C17116A412 for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:35:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ru@rambler-co.ru) Received: from relay0.rambler.ru (relay0.rambler.ru [81.19.66.187]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1EAA43D7B for ; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:35:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ru@rambler-co.ru) Received: from relay0.rambler.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay0.rambler.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D2805F61; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:35:07 +0300 (MSK) Received: from edoofus.park.rambler.ru (unknown [81.19.65.108]) by relay0.rambler.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF1BD5F54; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:35:06 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from ru@localhost) by edoofus.park.rambler.ru (8.13.8/8.13.8) id kAFDZ7am037795; Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:35:07 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 16:35:07 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: Aditya Godbole Message-ID: <20061115133507.GE19881@rambler-co.ru> References: <2f3a439f0611142305n441d3adwf7738ae40f9103e3@mail.gmail.com> <200611151101.kAFB1c8a089422@lurza.secnetix.de> <2f3a439f0611150355n3dd81845ydbeb0a7b597fb087@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2f3a439f0611150355n3dd81845ydbeb0a7b597fb087@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-Virus-Scanned: No virus found Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ramdisk support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:35:17 -0000 --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:25:36PM +0530, Aditya Godbole wrote: > On 11/15/06, Oliver Fromme 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 ra= m? > > > >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. > > >=20 > Hi, >=20 > 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. >=20 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, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWxeKqRfpzJluFF4RAnFVAJ9QnSiGxAf6QwmKc83PeIMWsCxzOQCeOoqN uCXs+DwZltNmNyc/0R4zaAw= =GVOX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TeJTyD9hb8KJN2Jy--