Okay, thank you. This is what I wanted to know.
2008/9/30 Nigel J. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The RAMDISK_CD kernel bsd in
> /usr/src/sys/arch/`machine`/compile/RAMDISK_CD is not the same as bsd.rd
> as you have found out it has an empty ramdisk, it the initial stage, to
> get a bsd.rd you need to build a release after building the userland.
> Details for building a release are in the FAQ's and man pages.
>
> Building the release will use the RAMDISK_CD to build the kernel in bsd,
> reserving space for the ramdisk, and then the make release process adds
> the ramdisk (miniroot) into this creating the bsd.rd. You will find what
> the build release does under
>
> /usr/src/distrib/ramdisk
>
> The install / update shells are in
>
> /usr/src/distrib/miniroot
>
> The resulting bsd.rd created by the release is placed into
> $DESTDIR/snapshot, and then into the release directory $RELEASEDIR.
>
> The RAMDISK - is for the floppynn.fs, RAMDISKB, RAMDISKC for
> floppynnB.fs, and floppynnC.fs.
>
> It all works for building a release, but as pointed out never needed for
> following current. I build a release so I have an install with all the
> patches for stable, I can use on a number of machines which use stable,
> rather than applying the patches on each.
>
> If what your are asking is can you just build bsd.rd without building
> the full release - possibly, maybe setting DESTDIR, RELEASEDIR and a
> make in /usr/src/distrib/ramdisk might work, really your on your own if
> your trying to do that.
>
> Regards
>
> Nigel Taylor
>
>
> Jordi Beltran Creix wrote:
>> 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
