Where is mfsroot.flp ?

[Niclas Zeising]

Yuan, Jue wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I just wonder where mfsroot.flp is going now. It seems it has been replaced by 
> boot.flp and kernX.flp. why?
> 
> What I really want is to get a mfsroot to embed into a FreeBSD kernel, since 
> kernel has option MD_ROOT to support this. I have found mfsroot.gz in boot/, 
> but after uncompressing, it turns out to be as big as 4.2MB, which is too big 
> for me. :-( Does anyone knows how to create a custom mfsroot, say which files 
> do I need to put in to it, to make it not larger than 4MB?
> 
> Any idea would be greatly appreciated. :-)
>  

The mfsroot.flp has been replaced in favour of kernX.flp. It was 
sometime when the mfsroot grew bigger that the 1.44KiB-limit. What 
someone did was making the kernel splitable over multiple floppies, and 
still bootable, iirc.

Why do you need a mfsroot instead of an ordinary /? Are you planing on 
making a live cd? Just out of curiosity.

Regards!
//Niclas