On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Peter C. Lai wrote:
I did a pxeboot zfs-root install the other day.
If you copy the dvd to an nfs export as the root mount, hack the requisite
files to do serial console then you will drop to a login prompt when it
boots over pxe-tftp. Had no problems setting up zfs root install by
skipping sysinstall and fixit entirely: setup your ZFS root, then set
DESTDIR and use install.sh in the individual package dirs.
In short, did you do what I did somewhat accidentally? I did a netboot,
set loader.conf to mount mfsroot as my root fs. For reasons I'm still
unclear on, it did not grab mfsroot and proceeded to try and mount root
over nfs (which happened to be exported RO). It seems like if my nfs was
exported rw, I would have been running with all the tools I needed and the
drives would be available to me...
I'm going to try with rw nfs, currently the machine's locked up as it's
confused about a ro root...
Thanks,
Charles
http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot/RAIDZ2
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Charles Sprickman <sp...@bway.net> wrote:
Any hints on that one?
I finally got around to getting dhcp/tftp/nfs setup on an internal
network
to perform normal installs (and with some pxelinux hackery, the ability
to
boot a DOS disk or memtest86 disk images).
Sysinstall in general is kind of an unweildy beast over serial, but one
thing I was not able to accomplish was to get a shell (no extra virtual
consoles on serial) or attempt any mounting of fixit media. From my
last
install that put ZFS on root, I had to do quite a bit of tapdancing
since I
had no DVD or bootable USB media - lots of switching from the install
disk
to fixit, which brought me to many chicken and egg moments. I did it
though...
But remotely, I'm not seeing a good way to do this. If mfsroot were
larger
and had more tools, then I'd be in business. This is probably the
direction
I need to get shoved in.
I've looked at some other options with pxelinux and perhaps booting the
mini
ISO, but I'm not sure that gets me anywhere.
Any tips? This isn't a make or break situation, I live 15 minutes from
the
colo... It's more of a quest. :)
I would installl a small UFS FBSD system of 1 or 2 Gig on say ad0s1.
That gives you more then the equivalent of a fixit CD. You then use
this mini system as base to install the "real one" on the other
slice(s)
After having finished the install, you use fdisk to change the active
slice to the new install and reboot.
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