Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:19 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: 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. Yaik I don't think thats obvious to the normal user :) It should be somewhere in handbook atleast around diskless operations chapter. Probably this will make it searchable via google and etc... ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot
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 ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot
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) :) ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot
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 pgpcn5ZjfD1SF.pgp Description: PGP signature
