Does FreeBSD kernel have the concept of early userspace (initial ramdisk) filesystem?

[thiago]

Hi,

I'm distributing some small software (more like a set of shell scripts) along with the kernel without requiring a full linux distro so I'm using an initramfs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initrd) image to hold busybox, libc and the scripts. With the linux kernel I can either bundle the image when compiling the kernel or have the bootloader pass it as a parameter. Does FreeBSD kernel support a similar concept?

Thanks in advance.

[trasz@]

Yes. See the md manual page, the part about MD_ROOT.

[graudeejs]

Not even a concept, but even an implementation ;)

[thiago]

That seems like what I need, thanks.