From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 8 12:53:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA28485 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:53:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA28460 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA06127; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 12:52:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Merlin Rhoda cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD MFS_ROOT Question In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980608112229.008aa7e0@phoenix.atticus.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Merlin Rhoda wrote: > > Hi Folks - I am trying to get FreeBSD to boot off a 4mb solid state disk > using the MFS_ROOT option. I have had poor success looking for > documentation of the MFS_ROOT kernel option on the web server. Any > pointers? I see a couple of things in LINT: # Make space in the kernel for a MFS root filesystem. Define to the number # of kilobytes to reserve for the filesystem. options MFS_ROOT=10 # Allow the MFS_ROOT code to load the MFS image from floppy if it is missing. options MFS_AUTOLOAD You may want to look at the `make release' procedure and the src/release subdirectory to see how they do it. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: gdi.uoregon.edu is going down, please use dwhite@resnet! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message