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From: Martin Renters <martin@tdc.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from solid-state-disk
To: dirk@hal.IN-Berlin.DE (Dirk Froemberg)
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 11:57:22 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> Dear hackers!
> 
> I'm trying to boot FreeBSD from a solid-state-disk.
> 
> The first 4K of the card is a bios extension mapping access to drive 80 (C:)
> via the bios to the memory on the card.
> 
> My first approach
> 
> 	cat bios-extension rawboot kernel-with-mfs-in-it > "/dev/card"	.
> 
> was successfull on the first shot... 8) Unfortunally the mfs within the
> kernel lacks of the kernel itself, unless one doesn't want to duplicate
> it. So ps, netstat, ... are useless.

I got around this by putting a file called 'kernel' in the MFS which
is an empty executable with the symbol table from the real kernel.  netstat
works after you do that.

Martin