On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 11:02:24PM +0900, Jordi Beltran Creix wrote: > I am using a virtual machine to try and follow -CURRENT.I have > installed a snapshot, downloaded the cvs source, built it and run to > see if it worked, up to there everything is okay. > Reading the FAQ I found out that the "official" way to follow current > more or less closely is to build a ramdisk image(or download a bsd.rd > image from the servers) and boot from that.
I believe you have misread the FAQ. The bsd.rd kernels are used for: initial binary installations binary upgrades rescue If you are running -current, you have two choices: install (or upgrade to) a snapshot, and build -current from the source upgrade from snapshot to snapshot, never building -current yourself. It appears you chose the first. If you have built and installed your kernel, booted it, then did a "make build" of userland, you are already running -current. > However, when I place my > newly generated image in / and boot from it, it tells me that it lacks > a root filesystem... I'm not sure *what* you are trying to do. Perhaps you're trying to copy your -current system to your production environment? Please forgive this level-set: To boot the OS requires boot blocks be installed, to get to a point where the bootloader is run and a kernel selected. How you do that varies by architecture. For i368/amd64, you need an MBR program installed, via fdisk(8) typically, and a PBR installed via installboot(8). The PBR has the specific sectors where the bootloader program (/usr/mdec/boot, usually copied into /boot) is stored. When the kernel is booted, it will look for a root partition. By default, it will look in the disklabel for the "a" partition. You can override this with "boot -a". If the kernel cannot find (or be directed to) a root parition, the boot will fail. As I stated above, if you have built the kernel and userland (and optionally, xenocara) from the -current sources, you are running -current. *IF* you wish to copy this OS to another platform, you must build a release and do a binary install or binary upgrade. Instructions for making releases are in FAQ 5 and, for additional detail, in the release(8) man page.
