Thank You Mateusz and Mike. I guess I am clear with my doubt now. I will also go through the man pages to go into depth of it.
Thanks, --Tapan. On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:24 +0530 > "Tapan Chaudhari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Thanks a lot Mike. But the problem is the device I am talking about is > > not the physical device. I am writing a driver which will create a > virtual > > device and all the i/os done on this virtual device will be ultimately > > redirected to the original device. Correct me if I am wrong, but I guess > the > > loader will try to mount my new device on '/' and then load the modules > into > > the kernel. Since my driver would not be loaded at that point in time, it > > will fail to even mount '/'. Am I right? Or can our drivers get loaded > > before loader mounts '/' ? > > You gotta keep your "/"'s straight. The kernel will boot of off a > physical devices - pretty much required. At that point, you can use > boot.config to load modules from that device, including any needed to > keep your driver happy. Set the vsf.root.mountfrom to tell the kernel > what where to find what's going to become the root file system when it > gets to that point. > > The process is documented in the man pages, starting with say > boot(8). Read through that and some of the "SEE ALSO" pages. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. > > O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
