From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 22 15: 6:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from lsmls01.we.mediaone.net (lsmls01.we.mediaone.net [24.130.1.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C38E37B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:06:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ericmlogan@mediaone.net) Received: from mediaone.net (we-24-130-92-248.we.mediaone.net [24.130.92.248]) by lsmls01.we.mediaone.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2MN6ie03531; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:06:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3ABA8457.A644C280@mediaone.net> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 15:01:43 -0800 From: Eric M Logan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Hesford Cc: Mike Meyer , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ramdisks and mfs... References: <15033.28284.778431.468125@guru.mired.org> <3AB9B07F.E6F9D481@mediaone.net> <15034.1210.849837.67514@guru.mired.org> <3ABA5B59.6A6330C4@mediaone.net> <15034.27254.538073.247625@guru.mired.org> <3ABA7424.6036B736@mediaone.net> <20010322165925.A9880@cec.wustl.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks, time to buy some dirt cheap ram. :) Andrew Hesford wrote: > Modify the MD_NSECT variable, yes. > > The MD_ROOT_SIZE=10 allows you to specify the size of a blank spot in > the kernel for storing an md_image file. This well become your root > device if you allow md root devices. > > By the way, can somebody please tell me how to put an md_image into the > kernel like that? Is it just with some careful use of dd, is there a > make flag, or some other method? I haven't been able to figure it out. > > Likewise, how can I extract the md_image from the kernel, if I want to > modify it? PicoBSD builds a kernel with md_image built right in, but I > can't figure out how to get the md_image in order to add some binaries. > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 01:52:36PM -0800, Eric M Logan wrote: > > would I do this using the "MD_ROOT_SIZE=10" or "MD_NSECT=40000" option in the > > kernel config? Thanks > -- > Andrew Hesford > ajh3@chmod.ath.cx -- ***************************** Eric M Logan ericmlogan@mediaone.net eric_m_logan@yahoo.com ***************************** Flames to /dev/null plz. :) ***************************** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message