On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 01:26:49AM -0500, Clark C . Evans wrote:
| | http://people.freebsd.org/~bsd/cdroot/
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| Ok. I've tried this route and it seems to be working,
| thank you all so much for your help and pointers.
Thus far, cdroot has worked well for me. I have a PleXwriter
23/10/40A and an old Mitsumi 12x CD-ROM (PIO 3). I get the
following boot messages...
cd9660: RockRidge extension
Warning: bytes per inode restricts cylinders per group to 9.
Warning: inode blocks/cyl group (285) >= data blocks (256) in last
cylinder group. This implies 4096 sector(s) cannot be allocated.
496 blocks
Warning: block size restricts cylinders per group to 26.
496 blocks
After that, all seems to go well. Unfortunately, when this same
CD-ROM is placed into a newer CD-ROM reader it either doesn't boot
at all... (such as the Data Research 56x max or Vintech Intl. VIN-44A)
or it gives me the following result: (results vary)
pid 7 (sh) uid 0: exited on signal 5/10/11
Where it can't seem to make up it's mind about what signal it
exits with 5, 10, or most frequently, 11.
I've tried everything... and purched 2 additional new
CD-ROM units with the same result... the new CD-ROMs don't
like the file that's being generated.
Thoughts?
Clark
I've had some problems getting cdroot to work
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| I also see a few drives complaining (like the mouse),
| I think I know how to re-do the kernel to leave out
| the mouse driver though. Is this a cd driver that
| needs to be removed?
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| Anyway, I log-in and everything works nicely. Cool.
| Given that I've gotten this far with cdroot, I think
| I'm going to stick with this solution... and figure
| out how it works. This kit makes three mfs for me:
| tmp, var, etc, dev. I'm wondering if the etc
| and dev must be done as mfs?
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| My next step is to make a custom boot process:
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| 1. Check to see if /dev/ad0s1b exists and is a
| swap partition, if so, load it.
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| 2. Check to see if /dev/ad0s1? exists and is
| a FreeBSD partition. If so, see if it looks
| like a /tmp, /var, or /home partition. If
| so mount as appropriate.
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| 3. Modify (2) above, to search on /ad?s1? for
| a similar structure. If so, then mount it
| using vinum.
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| If steps 1-3 above fail, then assume it is an
| "uninitialized" box. Ask the user to verify
| this fact, and then create the partitions
| automagically. If there are two disks, ask
| the user if a software mirror is to be used,
| if so, then configure this as well.
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| If any of you have any suggestions/comments/ideas
| as to how to best do this, I'd love to hear them!
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| Best,
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| Clark
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| Thank you all so much for your
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| My next step is to examine the file system:
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| (a) if the "data" partition exists, then this
| can be mounted and /var and /tmp can be
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