On 2010-05-30 07:42:47PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: > Garrett Cooper <yanef...@gmail.com> writes: > > This is how I do it in my quickie loader.rc: > > include /boot/loader.4th > > set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0" > > load /kernel > > load -t mfs_root /mfsroot > > start > > I used to do exactly this back at FreeBSD 4.11 to boot off a cdrom. > Nice to know it still works this way. > > Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> writes: > > However, what I'm having trouble understanding is what exactly > > preload_search_info() looks for and how all this actually connects > > and works. It appears to me that there are specific drivers located in > > src/sys/dev that are KLD-supported and others which are expected to be > > included in the kernel statically. > > Maybe this confusion explains why /dev/md0c is giving me random crashes > at the moment? > > Of course, another theory might be the size of my initial ramdisk > (300Mb). Would there any known bug where booting off a large ramdisk > causes unreadable panics to flash past the console too rapidly to view?
Run memtest86 on the first 300mb of ram lately? Does your ramdisk crash at any size? -- =========================================================== Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon's Rock Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd. Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428 =========================================================== _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
