How to compile and install Freebsd to Routerstation PRO

[Aleksandr Rybalko]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:33:29 -0700
Juli Mallett <jmallett at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 14:30, Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 14:18:09 -0700
> > Juli Mallett <jmallett at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Jan,
> >>
> >> Do you want to boot the RS Pro from network, or from NAND?  If from
> >> network, there are probably instructions elsewhere that would be
> >> more useful, and hopefully someone else knows where to link to (I
> >> don't.)
> >>
> >> If you want to boot from NAND, things get a little tricky.  FreeBSD
> >> doesn't have usable NAND support yet, so you'll have to boot Linux
> >> to copy the kernel to NAND flash, and you'll have to erase NAND
> >> from the bootloader before doing that otherwise Linux may place
> >> the FreeBSD kernel outside of the range that RouterBOOT is willing
> >> to read from. Also, you kernel has to be under 4MB big for the
> >> same reason.
> >
> > IIRC RSPro have 16M of NOR flash (cfi driver), not NAND :)
> 
> Yes, you should ignore me.  I had a massive brain-related failure.  My
> answers were about RB450G, the original question was about RS Pro.
> Sorry for the noise — that's what I get for using both :)
> 
> Someone else can say how to setup RS Pro.  Luckily lots of people have
> those and it sucks a lot less :)

Yep, it is why we doing zrouter :)
http://zrouter.org/

Jan, let me know if something not so clear to understand in our docs.

WBW
-- 
Aleksandr Rybalko <ray at ddteam.net>