Hi Steve, On Freitag, 8. Februar 2013, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > I'd like to share a recipe that works for an extracted netboot.tar.gz: > > $ qemu-system-x86_64 -m 512 -enable-kvm -net nic -net > user,bootfile=grub2pxe,tftp=. -serial stdio -boot n -drive > if=ide,bus=0,file=/dev/sdX,cache=writeback -no-reboot
thanks! with that I can surely make an installation work! > I usually remove the font.pf2 file (forcing GRUB to run in text-mode) > and patch the grub.cfg like the attached. This automatically starts a > pre-seeded install, and the d-i syslog gets conveniently redirected to > qemu's stdout. nice. though I'd actually prefer to boot the mini.iso unmodified and still get pre-seeding, is that somehow possible? > The preseed.cfg can probably be the same as a Linux one. If you specify > a partman-auto/disk it should probably be /dev/ada0 (first IDE whole > disk on kfreebsd-9) or /dev/ad0 (on kfreebsd-8). > > Here's one I've had some success with: > http://pyro.eu.org/f/x-Lru4G5SieJVqMaRj71vQ.cfg thanks! I've now finally booted d-i on debian kfreebsd once+twice \o/ ;-) > It can be adapted easily to boot a mini.iso instead, but then it is > harder to tweak the grub.cfg. can you show me how to do this? :-) cheers, Holger
