Re: ZFS Boot Menu
06.10.2013 08:54, Teske, Devin wrote: On Sep 30, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 29.09.2013 00:30, Teske, Devin wrote: Interested in feedback, but moreover I would like to see who is interested in tackling this with me? I can't do it alone... I at least need testers whom will provide feedback and edge-case testing. Sign me in, I'm not fluent with forth but testing something new is always fun. Cool; to start with, do you have a virtual appliance software like VMware or VirtualBox? Experience with generating ZFS pools in said software? VirtualBox/Qemu, Qemu is able to emulate boot to serial for example. And yes I tried working with ZFS in VMs. I think that we may have something to test next month. Right now, we're working on the ability of bsdinstall(8) to provision Boot on ZFS as a built-in functionality. That sounds cool. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Menu
On Sep 30, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: 29.09.2013 00:30, Teske, Devin wrote: Interested in feedback, but moreover I would like to see who is interested in tackling this with me? I can't do it alone... I at least need testers whom will provide feedback and edge-case testing. Sign me in, I'm not fluent with forth but testing something new is always fun. Cool; to start with, do you have a virtual appliance software like VMware or VirtualBox? Experience with generating ZFS pools in said software? I think that we may have something to test next month. Right now, we're working on the ability of bsdinstall(8) to provision Boot on ZFS as a built-in functionality. This feature (when in; projected for 10.0-BETA1) will make testing the Forth enhancements easier (IMHO). -- Devin _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Menu
Am 28.09.2013 23:30, schrieb Teske, Devin: In my recent interview on bsdnow.tv, I was pinged on BEs in Forth. I'd like to revisit this. Back on Sept 20th, 2012, I posted some pics demonstrating what exactly code that was in HEAD (at the time) was/is capable of. These three pictures (posted the same day) tell a story: 1. You boot to the menu: http://twitpic.com/b1eswi/full 2. You select option #5 to get here: http://twitpic.com/b1etyb/full 3. You select option #2 to get here: http://twitpic.com/b1ew47/full I've just (today) uploaded the /boot/menu.rc file(s) that I used to create those pictures: http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/zfsbeastie/ NB: There's a README file to go along with the files. HINT: diff -pu menu.rc.1.current-head menu.rc.2.cycler HINT: diff -pu menu.rc.1.current-head menu.rc.2.dynamic-submenu Interested in feedback, but moreover I would like to see who is interested in tackling this with me? I can't do it alone... I at least need testers whom will provide feedback and edge-case testing. Woohoo! Great! I am using ZFS boot environments with beadm, so I can test a bit. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS Boot Menu
29.09.2013 00:30, Teske, Devin wrote: Interested in feedback, but moreover I would like to see who is interested in tackling this with me? I can't do it alone... I at least need testers whom will provide feedback and edge-case testing. Sign me in, I'm not fluent with forth but testing something new is always fun. -- Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
ZFS Boot Menu
In my recent interview on bsdnow.tv, I was pinged on BEs in Forth. I'd like to revisit this. Back on Sept 20th, 2012, I posted some pics demonstrating what exactly code that was in HEAD (at the time) was/is capable of. These three pictures (posted the same day) tell a story: 1. You boot to the menu: http://twitpic.com/b1eswi/full 2. You select option #5 to get here: http://twitpic.com/b1etyb/full 3. You select option #2 to get here: http://twitpic.com/b1ew47/full I've just (today) uploaded the /boot/menu.rc file(s) that I used to create those pictures: http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/zfsbeastie/ NB: There's a README file to go along with the files. HINT: diff -pu menu.rc.1.current-head menu.rc.2.cycler HINT: diff -pu menu.rc.1.current-head menu.rc.2.dynamic-submenu Interested in feedback, but moreover I would like to see who is interested in tackling this with me? I can't do it alone... I at least need testers whom will provide feedback and edge-case testing. -- Devin _ The information contained in this message is proprietary and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please: (i) delete the message and all copies; (ii) do not disclose, distribute or use the message in any manner; and (iii) notify the sender immediately. In addition, please be aware that any message addressed to our domain is subject to archiving and review by persons other than the intended recipient. Thank you. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
