On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 08:13:29AM +0200, Michael van Elst wrote:
> So, the bootme flag effectively specifies the root partition, but only
> by virtue of defaults being passed down the chain. The kernel should
> not outguess things and interpret the flag itself.
I am working with oster@ on that. T
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 05:57:49AM +, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 12:20:00PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> [bootme flag]
> > I'd always assumed it to be where efiboot should locate boot.cfg.
> > Where the kernel and root filesystems are located are in boot.cfg.
>
> Bootme t
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 12:20:00PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
[bootme flag]
> I'd always assumed it to be where efiboot should locate boot.cfg.
> Where the kernel and root filesystems are located are in boot.cfg.
Bootme tels bootstrap where to look root partition. bootme.cfg is
searched in EFI pari
Date:Sun, 24 Sep 2023 17:41:30 +
From:Taylor R Campbell
Message-ID: <20230924174130.481dd60...@jupiter.mumble.net>
| Why would bootme be usually set on the EFI system partition?
|
| The documentation in gpt(8) needs to be clarified -- and I'm not sure
| t
On 2023-09-20 12.41, Edgar Fuß wrote:
Didn't RAIDframe recently (for certain values of "recently") gain the function
to dump on a level 1 set? Should this work in -8?
swapctl -z says "dump device is raid0b" (and raid0 is a level 1 RAID), but
reboot 0x100 in DDB says
dumping to dev 18,1 (offset
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 08:14:07PM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> To me the flag sounds totally useless and I'd say we should remove support
> for it (or document it as only valid for compatibility with existing
> setups).
Please don't break setup that are in use, expecially when it comes to
boos
On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 05:41:30PM +, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> The documentation in gpt(8) needs to be clarified -- and I'm not sure
> there's any other canonical reference about it in any of our
> documentation -- but it sounds to me like it is supposed to be:
>
> (a) where NetBSD's efiboot
> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 19:21:09 +0200
> From: Martin Husemann
>
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 06:14:58PM +0100, David Brownlee wrote:
> > Specifically in the absence of any other information (empty devname?
> > etc), would it not be reasonable to fall back to the bootme marked
> > filesystem as a r