On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:38:11PM +0200, Iasen Kostov wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:18 -0500, David S. Madole wrote: > > From: "Iasen Kostov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > I've seen a lot of examples where peeple load gzipped mfsroot images > > > and everything looks fine for them, but not for me. It loads > > > uncompressed image and boots ok, it loads compressed image and does not > > > uncompress it and then tries to mount ufs directly on it which fails > > > ofcourse. As I saw bay default loader(and pxeboot porbably - its a > > > diskless machine which boots over ethernet) have LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT > > > defined so I think I should have gzip support in loader. > > > > > > Here is the loader.conf: > > > > > > rootfs_load="YES" > > > rootfs_name="dlroot.gz" > > > rootfs_type="mfs_root" > > > > I've not users this in quite a while, so I may be wrong here, but I think > > what you need is: > > > > rootfs_name="dlroot" > > > > If gzip support is compiled in, it will automatically try to fetch > > dlroot.gz first and if it succeeds, it will uncompress and use it. The > > way you have configured it, it tries dlroot.gz.gz, which fails, so then > > it tried to load dlroot.gz as an uncompressed file. > > > > David > > > > Thanks a lot ! That do the trick :) > It will realy be good if this is documented somewhere - probably in > loader(8) manual page ... And will save people some hours of "blessing" > loader(8) :) > loader(8) has no business documenting this; it's already documented (though not too verbose) in the libstand(3) manpage.
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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