Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:38:53 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Emmanuel Chriqui <emmanuel.chriqui@laposte.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem Message-ID: <20050419193853.GA54430@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <425309CC00851976@lpdnpm10.laposte.net> References: <20050419190557.GA82027@stack.nl> <425309CC00851976@lpdnpm10.laposte.net>
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--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:31:10PM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: > This is roughly how it works under our linux servers, webservers, etc... I > was hoping to avoid that approach (less work.. less maintenance..).=20 >=20 > Am I the only one on earth to need a big MFSROOT ???=20 > :) Hmm, I guess so. :-P Anyway, you might try http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~dyeske/freebsd/article.html Although I'm not sure the linker will allow you to link such a huge object into the kernel... I've used this patch on my netbooted FreeBSD 4.x servers, but never larger tham 10 MB. Another idea is to use NFS just to use the loader to 'load -t mfs_root' the mfsroot image. After that, you wouldn't depend on NFS anymore. Marc --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFCZV5NezjnobFOgrERAk3/AJjrJNX4clmF2w0MUFCWFUTwlhdwAKDCZjwc 3uShtpIR40cazHGZQwxjuw== =33GT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--
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