FreeBSD on Mikrotik RB751G-2HnD

[Andrew Thompson]

On 16 May 2013 12:34, Luiz Otavio O Souza <lists.br at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 May 2013 19:20, Piotr Kubaj <pkubaj at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi all. I've recently noticed that FreeBSD is quite well supported on
>> MIPS routers. I myself own Mikrotik RouterBoard RB751G-2HnD (specs on
>> http://routerboard.com/RB751G-2HnD ). It seems to be supported. So, is
>> there anyone running FreeBSD on this specific model or a similar one?
>> Can I get some how-to on installing FreeBSD? One thing bugs me, most
>> of these supported routers have 16-64MB flash. How is FreeBSD supposed
>> to fit in that? Is some USB drive required? Thanks, Piotr Kubaj.
>>
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> Hi Piotr,
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> Well, its kind of supported but there is no driver for the NAND on it,
> which means you can boot from NAND yet.

I understand RouterBOOT expects /kernel on a yaffs filesystem. There
is no yaffs support so could u-boot be written there from Linux and
chainload FreeBSD?


Andrew