From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 11 15:32:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1DB14BCC for ; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA15379; Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:32:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Robert Ramey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about kernel command line arguments In-Reply-To: <19990611002412.055B92531F@acme.sb.west.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Robert Ramey wrote: > The linux kernel has the ability to pass certain arguments such as the > nfsroot when it boots. Is there a similar facility in the FreeBSD kernel? In 3.X, maybe. > I am porting the etherboot package to FreeBSD and this would be useful. Someone already beat you. See ports/net/etherboot. Also check the -hackers mail archives for other interesting bits. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message