Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:57:51 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, aag.lists@gmail.com Subject: Re: Ramdisk support Message-ID: <200611161457.kAGEvp3F068251@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <2f3a439f0611160556o6e643561sf45bccab2ad769ad@mail.gmail.com>
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Aditya Godbole wrote: > Oliver Fromme wrote: > > I don't know u-boot. What is that? > > u-boot is a bootloader popular in embedded systems. > Its often used with Linux. I see. Is it PXE-compliant? If so, you can use FreeBSD's PXE bootloader (/boot/pxeboot) for loading the kernel. In that case you can also load the root FS image as a separate file, so there is no need to hack it into the kernel binary. As far as I know, there is no official support for loading a FreeBSD kernel directly, without using the FreeBSD boot loader. By the way, why don't you simply mount the root FS via NFS? Is the NIC not supported? What NIC is it? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "FreeBSD is Yoda, Linux is Luke Skywalker" -- Daniel C. Sobral
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