Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:50:07 -0700 From: Mark Peek <mp@FreeBSD.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/picobsd/build write_mfs_in_kernel.c Message-ID: <p05111a12b95777128625@[10.1.1.73]> In-Reply-To: <46033.1026669523@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <46033.1026669523@critter.freebsd.dk>
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At 7:58 PM +0200 7/14/02, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >Ok, the utility _will_ be going away entirely, because W Gerald >Hicks <gehixz@bellsouth.net> has found a far better way of doing >the same thing: > >(quoting from his email to me:) > > dd if=/dev/zero of=mdimage -bs=1024 count=4096 > mdconfig -a -t vnode -f mdimage -s 4096k -u 4 > disklabel -r -w md4 auto > newfs /dev/md4c > mount /dev/md4c /mnt > . > . put stuff on it > . > umount /mnt > mdconfig -d -u 4 > objcopy -I binary -O elf32-i386 -B i386 \ > --redefine-symbol _binary_mdimage_start=md_root_image \ > --redefine-symbol _binary_mdimage_size=md_root_image_size \ > mdimage /tmp/mdimage.o > > Then within our kernel config file we add: > makeoption MD_ROOT_IMAGE="/tmp/mdimage.o" > >If anybody is actively working in this area, please get in touch >with him about shepperding the patches into the tree... Great! This looks good. I'll contact him about the patches. Thanks for letting me know about it. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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