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Subject: Re: FreeBSD on a DockStar - doesn't mount root
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On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:09:03 +0100
crest <crest@informatik.uni-bremen.de> wrote:

>  On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:32:03 +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> > OTOH, how does the kernel read /boot/loader.conf and the settings in
> > there if it can't mount the disk?
> 
>  The loader isn't used on the DockStar. U-boot just jumps into the 
>  kernel's entry point. Just compile it into the kernel.

Aha. Is there no way to pass FreeBSD kernel arguments (or what you call it) via U-Boot?
-- 
Torfinn