On 11/16/06, Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
u-boot is not PXE compliant. I have never come across anyone trying to use it to boot FreeBSD before. Unfortunately, that is the only bootloader that I know of that works on the architecture I'm working on.
As far as I know, there is no official support for loading a FreeBSD kernel directly, without using the FreeBSD boot loader.
Yes. However for putting FreeBSD on embedded systems, I have to make tweaks to allow it to boot using other bootloaders. I'm working on putting FreeBSD on the MPC8555 e500-PPC based board, which is not supported at all.
By the way, why don't you simply mount the root FS via NFS? Is the NIC not supported? What NIC is it?
Quite a bit of the hardware is not supported in FreeBSD right now. Probably this discussion should go on the embedded mailing list, but I thought I would get a better response here for my original specific question. (Can't say I was wrong). Cheers. -- aditya _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
