Date: Fri, 7 Feb 1997 11:57:22 -0500 (EST) From: Martin Renters <martin@tdc.on.ca> To: dirk@hal.IN-Berlin.DE (Dirk Froemberg) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from solid-state-disk Message-ID: <199702071657.LAA11990@tdc.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970203123525.dirk@hal.IN-Berlin.DE> from "Dirk Froemberg" at Feb 3, 97 12:35:25 pm
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> > Dear hackers! > > I'm trying to boot FreeBSD from a solid-state-disk. > > The first 4K of the card is a bios extension mapping access to drive 80 (C:) > via the bios to the memory on the card. > > My first approach > > cat bios-extension rawboot kernel-with-mfs-in-it > "/dev/card" . > > was successfull on the first shot... 8) Unfortunally the mfs within the > kernel lacks of the kernel itself, unless one doesn't want to duplicate > it. So ps, netstat, ... are useless. I got around this by putting a file called 'kernel' in the MFS which is an empty executable with the symbol table from the real kernel. netstat works after you do that. Martin
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