From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 16 14:57:59 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD3E16A5C5 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:57:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [83.120.8.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDC543D5F for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:57:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (bmtuhk@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id kAGEvpgC068252; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:57:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id kAGEvp3F068251; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:57:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:57:51 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <200611161457.kAGEvp3F068251@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, aag.lists@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <2f3a439f0611160556o6e643561sf45bccab2ad769ad@mail.gmail.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-hackers User-Agent: tin/1.8.2-20060425 ("Shillay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.11-STABLE (i386)) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:57:57 +0100 (CET) Cc: Subject: Re: Ramdisk support X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, aag.lists@gmail.com List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:57:59 -0000 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