I am NOT trying to boot my root partition using bsd.rd. Although I see that I can using the -a option. I was trying to get a bsd.rd image like the one from the CDs, with the Install Upgrade and Shell options. I followed the instructions from release(8) closely but the generated binary is the same - it tells me it tries to boot from the ramdisk device and that it has size 0 and reboots. I don't intend it to use as a way to upgrade, it is easier to download the newer snapshots, I was just testing the functionality. I am obviously missing something and this is why I asked. I've just downloaded the one from the snapshots and see it is RAMDISK_CD. Do I need to build the RAMDISK_CD kernel instead of RAMDISK and it will work?
Thank you 2008/9/28 Stijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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. However, when I place my >> newly generated image in / and boot from it, it tells me that it lacks >> a root filesystem. Obviously it is lacking a ramdisk, but I don't know >> where to get that from and I have been unable to find the appropriate >> manpage or piece of documentation. Could you please point it out to >> me? >> Thank you >> >> >> >> > > From the FAQ: > http://openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#bsd.rd > > bsd.rd is used to install, upgrade or doing system maintenance. It's not > used to boot of your machine for normal usage. > > HTH, > Stijn
