Re: Ramdisk support



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

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