On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 05:25:36PM +0530, Aditya Godbole wrote: > On 11/15/06, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Aditya Godbole wrote: > > > Is there any ramdisk support in freebsd, as there is in netbsd? > > > What are the alternatives if I want to mount a root filesytem from ram? > > > >You mean a diskless setup? I think there's a detailed > >description of diskless setups in the FreeBSD Handbook. > >You might also want to look at the diskless(8) manpage. > > > > Hi, > > I was looking for something like initrd support of Linux or the > mdsetimage of NetBSD. > I have no disc or network card support for my hardware at the moment. > Well, how are you going to boot your system without a disk and network then? We support disk booting, and diskless (network) booting, also support CD-ROM and floppy booting. What of these do you need?
Like others have said, we can load kernels with an embedded root filesystem image; the image can either be read-write or read-only; in the latter case, it can also be compressed with geom_uzip(4). Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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