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    is FreeBSD kernel a multiboot kernel ?

    Hi, Grub can boot FreeBSD by : kernel /boot/<some kernel> boot Does this mean FreeBSD kernel is a multiboot kernel? I search the source tree and can not find any thing about multiboot. I think the grub maybe know something about the boot stages of FreeBSD. Am i right? Thanks.
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    FreeBSD minimal

    You can install the minimal base system and install the software what you need by ports.
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    How to insert the ram disk image to a FreeBSD kernel?

    By reading the mdsetimage's source code, the ramdisk image insert into the kernel's some ELF section. NetBSD kernel can be configured to work with multiboot boot loader such as grub. So we can get a single ELF file (kernel with ramdisk root filesystem in it) to boot up a computer runing a...
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    How to insert the ram disk image to a FreeBSD kernel?

    These are memory disks(filesystem) support in FreeBSD. But i want to know is there a way to insert a memory disk as root file system to a FreeBSD kernel?
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    How to insert the ram disk image to a FreeBSD kernel?

    Hi, Guys As i know, it is easy to insert a ram disk image into a NetBSD kernel image. say : makefs -s 20m -t ffs ramdisk.img fakeroot/ mdsetimage -v netbsd ramdisk.img Is this possible in FreeBSD and how ? Thanks in advance.
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    about gcc >=4.2 in base

    What do you mean "entire tool chain" ? OpenBSD's own as(assembler) instead gas ? OpenBSD's own ld(link editor) instead GNU's version? Or just PCC instead gcc ?
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    msdosfs display chinese(UTF-8) file name as ??

    I use rxvt-unicode in the X windows system and it can display utf-8 chinese char right. I think the kiconv lib can not convert UTF-16 to UTF-8 right now(FreeBSD-7.1). Am I right?
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    msdosfs display chinese(UTF-8) file name as ??

    I use FreeBSD-7.1 and in my kernel conf file: options MSDOSFS options MSDOSFS_ICONV options LIBICONV I mount the fat32 filesystem : mount_msdosfs -D cp936 -L zh_CN.UTF-8 /dev/da0s1 /mnt But it can not display chinese. Is there any problem about msdosfs or the problem about...
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    build kernel when hack on it

    Hi, Every time I add some printf()s to the kernel source and build it. The building system(cd /usr/src && make buildkern KERNCONF=...) will build the whole kernel.(clean all the objects in /usr/obj and rebuild all the objects) Is there a way to build only file(s) what I've edited just...
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    Screenshots: Poste 'Em!

    The font is the highlight of this theme.
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    kernel compile

    You can find the object files in /usr/obj/$(arch)/ .
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