Re: ZFS on root, serial console install
I did a pxeboot zfs-root install the other day. If you copy the dvd to an nfs export as the root mount, hack the requisite files to do serial console then you will drop to a login prompt when it boots over pxe-tftp. Had no problems setting up zfs root install by skipping sysinstall and fixit entirely: setup your ZFS root, then set DESTDIR and use install.sh in the individual package dirs. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2 On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability to boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images). Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one thing I was not able to accomplish was to get a shell (no extra virtual consoles on serial) or attempt any mounting of fixit media. From my last install that put ZFS on root, I had to do quite a bit of tapdancing since I had no DVD or bootable USB media - lots of switching from the install disk to fixit, which brought me to many chicken and egg moments. I did it though... But remotely, I'm not seeing a good way to do this. If mfsroot were larger and had more tools, then I'd be in business. This is probably the direction I need to get shoved in. I've looked at some other options with pxelinux and perhaps booting the mini ISO, but I'm not sure that gets me anywhere. Any tips? This isn't a make or break situation, I live 15 minutes from the colo... It's more of a quest. :) I would installl a small UFS FBSD system of 1 or 2 Gig on say ad0s1. That gives you more then the equivalent of a fixit CD. You then use this mini system as base to install the real one on the other slice(s) After having finished the install, you use fdisk to change the active slice to the new install and reboot. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Peter C. Lai ITS Systems Administrator Bard College at Simon's Rock 84 Alford Rd. Great Barrington, MA 01230 (413) 528-7428 peter at simons-rock.edu ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS on root, serial console install
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Peter C. Lai wrote: I did a pxeboot zfs-root install the other day. If you copy the dvd to an nfs export as the root mount, hack the requisite files to do serial console then you will drop to a login prompt when it boots over pxe-tftp. Had no problems setting up zfs root install by skipping sysinstall and fixit entirely: setup your ZFS root, then set DESTDIR and use install.sh in the individual package dirs. In short, did you do what I did somewhat accidentally? I did a netboot, set loader.conf to mount mfsroot as my root fs. For reasons I'm still unclear on, it did not grab mfsroot and proceeded to try and mount root over nfs (which happened to be exported RO). It seems like if my nfs was exported rw, I would have been running with all the tools I needed and the drives would be available to me... I'm going to try with rw nfs, currently the machine's locked up as it's confused about a ro root... Thanks, Charles http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2 On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability to boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images). Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one thing I was not able to accomplish was to get a shell (no extra virtual consoles on serial) or attempt any mounting of fixit media. From my last install that put ZFS on root, I had to do quite a bit of tapdancing since I had no DVD or bootable USB media - lots of switching from the install disk to fixit, which brought me to many chicken and egg moments. I did it though... But remotely, I'm not seeing a good way to do this. If mfsroot were larger and had more tools, then I'd be in business. This is probably the direction I need to get shoved in. I've looked at some other options with pxelinux and perhaps booting the mini ISO, but I'm not sure that gets me anywhere. Any tips? This isn't a make or break situation, I live 15 minutes from the colo... It's more of a quest. :) I would installl a small UFS FBSD system of 1 or 2 Gig on say ad0s1. That gives you more then the equivalent of a fixit CD. You then use this mini system as base to install the real one on the other slice(s) After having finished the install, you use fdisk to change the active slice to the new install and reboot. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Peter C. Lai ITS Systems Administrator Bard College at Simon's Rock 84 Alford Rd. Great Barrington, MA 01230 (413) 528-7428 peter at simons-rock.edu ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS on root, serial console install
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Peter C. Lai wrote: I did a pxeboot zfs-root install the other day. If you copy the dvd to an nfs export as the root mount, hack the requisite files to do serial console then you will drop to a login prompt when it boots over pxe-tftp. Had no problems setting up zfs root install by skipping sysinstall and fixit entirely: setup your ZFS root, then set DESTDIR and use install.sh in the individual package dirs. In short, did you do what I did somewhat accidentally? I did a netboot, set loader.conf to mount mfsroot as my root fs. For reasons I'm still unclear on, it did not grab mfsroot and proceeded to try and mount root over nfs (which happened to be exported RO). It seems like if my nfs was exported rw, I would have been running with all the tools I needed and the drives would be available to me... I'm going to try with rw nfs, currently the machine's locked up as it's confused about a ro root... Thanks, Charles I didn't muck with the loader at all (well except for ZFS tuning). TBH, my serial console is a hardware redirect that BIOS provides so I actually just mdconfig'ed the ISO and exported that via NFS. By booting NFS root RO, init will bail out before being able to run sysinstall and somehow it will spawn getty instead, asking me to login. Logged in as root and I dropped to /bin/tcsh. http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2 On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability to boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images). Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one thing I was not able to accomplish was to get a shell (no extra virtual consoles on serial) or attempt any mounting of fixit media. From my last install that put ZFS on root, I had to do quite a bit of tapdancing since I had no DVD or bootable USB media - lots of switching from the install disk to fixit, which brought me to many chicken and egg moments. I did it though... But remotely, I'm not seeing a good way to do this. If mfsroot were larger and had more tools, then I'd be in business. This is probably the direction I need to get shoved in. I've looked at some other options with pxelinux and perhaps booting the mini ISO, but I'm not sure that gets me anywhere. Any tips? This isn't a make or break situation, I live 15 minutes from the colo... It's more of a quest. :) I would installl a small UFS FBSD system of 1 or 2 Gig on say ad0s1. That gives you more then the equivalent of a fixit CD. You then use this mini system as base to install the real one on the other slice(s) After having finished the install, you use fdisk to change the active slice to the new install and reboot. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Peter C. Lai ITS Systems Administrator Bard College at Simon's Rock 84 Alford Rd. Great Barrington, MA 01230 (413) 528-7428 peter at simons-rock.edu ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Peter C. Lai ITS Systems Administrator Bard College at Simon's Rock 84 Alford Rd. Great Barrington, MA 01230 (413) 528-7428 peter at simons-rock.edu ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS on root, serial console install
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability to boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images). Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one thing I was not able to accomplish was to get a shell (no extra virtual consoles on serial) or attempt any mounting of fixit media. From my last install that put ZFS on root, I had to do quite a bit of tapdancing since I had no DVD or bootable USB media - lots of switching from the install disk to fixit, which brought me to many chicken and egg moments. I did it though... But remotely, I'm not seeing a good way to do this. If mfsroot were larger and had more tools, then I'd be in business. This is probably the direction I need to get shoved in. I've looked at some other options with pxelinux and perhaps booting the mini ISO, but I'm not sure that gets me anywhere. Any tips? This isn't a make or break situation, I live 15 minutes from the colo... It's more of a quest. :) The way I do it is to boot over the network using pxeboot, configure the partitions and ZFS pool and filesystems mounted on /mnt, then install using sysinstall, using the Options dialog to set the install directory to /mnt. I think I created the NFS filesystem using make installworld DESTDIR=/usr/nfs/freebsd or something like that; this gives you all the tools you need. Matt ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS on root, serial console install
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Charles Sprickman sp...@bway.net wrote: Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability to boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images). Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one thing I was not able to accomplish was to get a shell (no extra virtual consoles on serial) or attempt any mounting of fixit media. From my last install that put ZFS on root, I had to do quite a bit of tapdancing since I had no DVD or bootable USB media - lots of switching from the install disk to fixit, which brought me to many chicken and egg moments. I did it though... But remotely, I'm not seeing a good way to do this. If mfsroot were larger and had more tools, then I'd be in business. This is probably the direction I need to get shoved in. I've looked at some other options with pxelinux and perhaps booting the mini ISO, but I'm not sure that gets me anywhere. Any tips? This isn't a make or break situation, I live 15 minutes from the colo... It's more of a quest. :) I would installl a small UFS FBSD system of 1 or 2 Gig on say ad0s1. That gives you more then the equivalent of a fixit CD. You then use this mini system as base to install the real one on the other slice(s) After having finished the install, you use fdisk to change the active slice to the new install and reboot. ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS on root, serial console install
Any hints on that one? I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal network to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability to boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images). Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one thing I was not able to accomplish was to get a shell (no extra virtual consoles on serial) or attempt any mounting of fixit media. From my last install that put ZFS on root, I had to do quite a bit of tapdancing since I had no DVD or bootable USB media - lots of switching from the install disk to fixit, which brought me to many chicken and egg moments. I did it though... But remotely, I'm not seeing a good way to do this. If mfsroot were larger and had more tools, then I'd be in business. This is probably the direction I need to get shoved in. I've looked at some other options with pxelinux and perhaps booting the mini ISO, but I'm not sure that gets me anywhere. Any tips? This isn't a make or break situation, I live 15 minutes from the colo... It's more of a quest. :) Thanks, Charles ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
