Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:08:42 +0530 From: "Aditya Godbole" <aag.lists@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ramdisk support Message-ID: <2f3a439f0611160038g5349f25bn8a1970120bc52b0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200611151344.kAFDiZmh097517@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <2f3a439f0611150355n3dd81845ydbeb0a7b597fb087@mail.gmail.com> <200611151344.kAFDiZmh097517@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On 11/15/06, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > > You can also put the image of the root file system into the > kernel itself, so it doesn't have to be loaded separately. > The kernel option to allocate appropriate space is called > MD_ROOT_SIZE. Thanks. I'm investigating this option. How do I specify the filesystem image that should be put into the kernel? > Then where are you booting from? At least your kernel has > to come from somewhere, i.e. you need either networking or > some kind of media (disk, USB stick or similar). Currently I'm using u-boot to get the kernel image from the network and boot it. Since I'm using u-boot, I proabably need to do something in my kernel bootstrap code that the loader would do otherwise. -- aditya
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