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?
--
Dave Hayes - Consultant - Altadena CA, USA - d...@jetcafe.org
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