Hi Benno, > On 22. Mar 2018, at 7:06 PM, Benno Rice <be...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I’ve been working on the ability to create hybrid ISO/HDD boot images for > x86, a la what Linux systems do with ISOHYBRID. The general theory seems to > be that ISO images have a 32KB hunk of zeroes at the front that they > generally ignore so we’ll stick something in there that can handle booting if > need be. The cases generally break down as follows:
Very cool! I ported the patch to 11.1-RELEASE and built an OPNsense image[1] based on the commands enclosed. (I'm not entirely sure if the porting was ok as there were quite a few challenges... but for the sake of testing...) Bhyve boot: ok VirtualBox boot: ok (when using extension .iso) APU1C boot: aborts with "Invalid partition" 3x, then "No /boot/loader" and then escapes to "FreeBSD/x86 boot" etc. It's an UEFI style ISO[2] so not sure if this is problematic. I have other hardware to try and your image, but that's for later. Cheers, Franco -- [1] https://pkg.opnsense.org/FreeBSD:11:amd64/snapshots/OPNsense-18.1.5-OpenSSL-dvd-amd64.iso.bz2 [2] https://github.com/opnsense/tools/blob/master/build/dvd.sh _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
