Peter Wemm writes:
| Warner Losh wrote:
| > In message <Pine.OSF.4.20.0008291444240.18775-100000@wally> Christopher Stein
| writes:
| > : .. does anyone know if this exists? It would
| > : speed up the panic-edit-compile-boot-copy-boot kernel hacking
| > : cycle by transforming it to panic-edit-compile-netboot.
| >
| > I usually mount everything readonly when I try a new module just
| > before loading it. It saves a tone of time. All I gotta fsck on the
| > way back up is /var since it won't mount ro after syslog starts, which
| > makes sense if you think about it.
| >
| > mount -ur /
| > mount -ur /usr
| > moutn -ur /junk
| >
| > is what I have in a script. After it succeeds, I do a mount -uwa
| > which updates all the mounts.
| >
| > You can also netboot via a ROM on your ethernet card or via floppy,
| > but I've not done that. The above works well enough for me.
|
| Also, if you have a PXE-aware network card or bios, netbooting
| with a small ramdisk is very convenient for crash-and-burn testing.
Since vmware doesn't do PXE, etherboot works nicely with it. This way
you can neboot your vmware session and with Julians psuedo serial port
thing you have a nice environment.
Doug A.
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