Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:06:41 +0530 From: "Aditya Godbole" <aag.lists@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ramdisk support Message-ID: <2f3a439f0611160836r3c88c3f4ja9cc5a5f4b78a244@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200611161457.kAGEvp3F068251@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <2f3a439f0611160556o6e643561sf45bccab2ad769ad@mail.gmail.com> <200611161457.kAGEvp3F068251@lurza.secnetix.de>
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On 11/16/06, Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> wrote: > > 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. > u-boot is not PXE compliant. I have never come across anyone trying to use it to boot FreeBSD before. Unfortunately, that is the only bootloader that I know of that works on the architecture I'm working on. > As far as I know, there is no official support for loading > a FreeBSD kernel directly, without using the FreeBSD boot > loader. > Yes. However for putting FreeBSD on embedded systems, I have to make tweaks to allow it to boot using other bootloaders. I'm working on putting FreeBSD on the MPC8555 e500-PPC based board, which is not supported at all. > By the way, why don't you simply mount the root FS via NFS? > Is the NIC not supported? What NIC is it? > Quite a bit of the hardware is not supported in FreeBSD right now. Probably this discussion should go on the embedded mailing list, but I thought I would get a better response here for my original specific question. (Can't say I was wrong). Cheers. -- aditya
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