On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 10:09:49 +0100 =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien?= Marie <semarie-open...@latrappe.fr> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 10:57:41PM +0200, Atanas Vladimirov wrote: > > On 24.10.2014 00:33, Robert Peichaer wrote: > > > > I'm following -current and decided to try autoinstall(8) from > > /auto_upgrade.conf when I moved to newer snapshot. > > I made a custom auto_upgrade.conf on my root [sd2a] partition but when I > > boot a newer bsd.rd, > > auto_upgrade.conf is not on the miniroot. I escaped to shell, mounted sd2a > > on /mnt and copied auto_upgrade.conf to miniroot. > > Then Autoupgrade completed as it should. > > The question is whether there are any easier steps to make auto_upgrade from > > local file, not by using dhcp/tftp/http? > > Thanks, > > Atanas > > The auto_upgrade.conf is searched in the ramdisk partition (which was > into bsd.rd). As thevoid@ wrote, you could rebuild a new bsd.rd image to > include it. > > Personnally, I extract the ramdisk image from bsd.rd, mount it, copy the > auto_upgrade.conf to it, and restore the ramdisk into bsd.rd. > > Here the "pseudo-script" I use: > > # build rdsetroot > ( cd /usr/src/distrib/common && cc -o /tmp/rdsetroot elf32.c elf64.c > elfrdsetroot.c ) > > # extract ramdisk from bsd.rd > /tmp/rdsetroot -x bsd.rd ramdisk.img > > # mount ramdisk > vnconfig vnd0 ramdisk.img > mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt > > # copy config file > cp auto_upgrade.conf /mnt/auto_upgrade.conf > > # umount ramdisk > umount /dev/vnd0a > vnconfig -u vnd0 > > # put modified ramdisk in bsd.rd > /tmp/rdsetroot bsd.rd ramdisk.img > > # cleanup > rm ramdisk.img > > And now, you could boot your modified bsd.rd. > -- > Sébastien Marie >
i like this. for this particular purpose, this is definitely a better method.
