On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:26:12PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> writes: > > And I think you meant this for variable names, in addition to what > > vfs.root.mountfrom should be (specific to RELENG_8): > > mfsroot_load="YES" > > mfsroot_type="mfs_root" > > mfsroot_name="/some/path/mfsroot" > > I'm using RELENG_7, but it seems rootfs_* works just like mfsroot_* ... > is the former deprecated?
I spent a small bit of time looking through both RELENG_7 and RELENG_8 source (/usr/src) as well as /boot (for the Forth portion) and I was unable to find any reference to "rootfs" aside from actual variable names (not loader variables) in C code or include files. None were strings. There's a strong possibility I'm not looking the right way (grep -ri ...). I can assure you that mfsroot_xxx works on both platforms because I wrote the below documentation: http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html > > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0" > > Hm, 'ufs:md0' currently works. What trouble can be had from using > the abbreviated device name? I have no idea; probably none. This is just the first time I've seen the variable set to something "shorthand". I would have to review the parser code to see how it works. > > If using RELENG_7 and the mfsroot was made on RELENG_7, replace > > "/dev/md0" with "/dev/md0c". > > Is there a reason for doing this? Yes, the "c" slice is gone with present-day GEOM. I'm fairly certain this is also the reason for the "geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)" message seen when running RELENG_8 with a disk which was labelled using an older GEOM (e.g. RELENG_7). This also applies to mfsroot images because all they are is raw disk images that are literally loaded into memory. -- | Jeremy Chadwick j...@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ 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"
