On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 03:26:46PM -0400, Josh Rickmar wrote:
> I got some emails off list asking about the removal and if it affected
> them. Worth adding to current.html?
sorry for the noise, missed a <p>
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<code>temporary</code>.
+<h3 id="r20210319">2021/03/19 - FFS boot support removed in vmd</h3>
+
+Support in vmd(8) for booting OpenBSD guests installed to a FFS root
+filesystem, without using the BIOS firmware or another boot kernel,
+was removed.
+This had only been possible by using both the <tt>-b</tt> and
+<tt>-d</tt> flags to <tt>vmctl start</tt>, or <tt>boot</tt> and
+<tt>disk</tt> parameters in <tt>vm.conf</tt>, with each specifying the
+same disk image file.
+This feature had not been implemented for FFS2.
+<p>
+The use of the BIOS firmware is now required to boot the kernel
+installed to a raw or qcow2 disk image, and will be used by default
+after removing a <tt>boot</tt> parameter from <tt>vm.conf</tt>.
+
+
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