darkskye
April 30th, 2009, 18:52
I've been reading Warner's blog posts (http://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2008/08/nslu2-support-committed-to-freebsdarm.html) about FreeBSD and the NSLU, but have struck a dead end.
Rather than netbooting I'd prefer to be able to boot from the internal flash and USB.
Warner's follow-up post about slimming the kernel down helped somewhat, and I now have a kernel, with USB support (and very little else!) along with gzboot (borrowed from NetBSD-evbarm) which I'm planning to flash my NSLU with.
Rather than trimming down the kernel so drastically, I had a thought, so I pose this question to the more experienced hackers out there...
Would it be possible to build a kernel which will then use a ramdisk image to kldload other modules out of a md in the NSLU's other bit of flash ram (in much the same way that Linux does)? Or should I be looking more at building a customized md to use as a root device during boot, which then mounts the root filesystem from the usb, in much the same way the installer does but with some heavy duty init tweaks?
Thanks,
A.
Rather than netbooting I'd prefer to be able to boot from the internal flash and USB.
Warner's follow-up post about slimming the kernel down helped somewhat, and I now have a kernel, with USB support (and very little else!) along with gzboot (borrowed from NetBSD-evbarm) which I'm planning to flash my NSLU with.
Rather than trimming down the kernel so drastically, I had a thought, so I pose this question to the more experienced hackers out there...
Would it be possible to build a kernel which will then use a ramdisk image to kldload other modules out of a md in the NSLU's other bit of flash ram (in much the same way that Linux does)? Or should I be looking more at building a customized md to use as a root device during boot, which then mounts the root filesystem from the usb, in much the same way the installer does but with some heavy duty init tweaks?
Thanks,
A.