Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's a good brief guide, but a lot of the information is already
contained in:
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html.
That's five years out of date, and even five years ago it was a
ridiculously complicated
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:45:10AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Just make sure you leave a few unallocated blocks at the end of the disk
(for gmirror metadata). In most cases, this happens automatically,
Well, you only need to leave room for 512 bytes or one hard drive sector,
in the
Peter Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Man, I wish I'd known this. I built a whole automated framework around
this, assuming you couldn't set up the initial mirror drive with a live
file system. I'll have to try your solution; it is definitely the way to
go. We are dealing with identical size
Mirroring the entire slice is far simpler. If you mirror individual
partitions, you have to label them *before* you newfs them.
What we're really trying to accomplish is an automated install via a PXE boot
server. Unfortunately gmirror isn't available in mfsroot at the point the file
systems
Peter Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dag-Erling Smørgrav [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mirroring the entire slice is far simpler. If you mirror individual
partitions, you have to label them *before* you newfs them.
What we're really trying to accomplish is an automated install via a
PXE boot
So what you do, instead, is make sure there is a little space left over
at the end of the slice that you create in the first step. Then, once
gmirror is available, you gmirror label the slice, then gmirror insert
the corresponding slice on the other disk(s), and gmirror rebuild. No
copying
Peter Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The problem is I was unable to get multiple slices defined in a
sysinstall config script. I tried many variations of parameters to
pump into diskPartitionEditor and diskLabelEditor so that we could
create three slices during the install but I couldn't
I wouldn't use a sysinstall script.
Yeah, I should probably have done it that way but I inherited the existing
sysinstall framework from someone else and ended up extending it to use
gmirror. I know more about this area now and I'd like to redo the whole thing,
avoiding sysinstall. That will
On Nov 27, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
I wouldn't use a sysinstall script.
Set up a file system (say /nfsroot) on an NFS server in your lab.
Just in case anyone needs a real step-by-step guide to getting a
diskless PXE/NFS boot going, I wrote this up a little while ago.
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 27, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
I wouldn't use a sysinstall script.
Set up a file system (say /nfsroot) on an NFS server in your lab.
Just in case anyone needs a real step-by-step guide to getting
On Nov 27, 2008, at 2:30 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just in case anyone needs a real step-by-step guide to getting a
diskless
PXE/NFS boot going, I wrote this up a little while ago.
I have a procedure for converting a FreeBSD box to use a mirrored slice
for the OS. Everything working fine except that after I've made the
conversion I am no longer getting the normal boot menu, the one that
counts down 10 seconds waiting for the user to pick on option.
I see a single line
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:46:29 -0800
Peter Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a procedure for converting a FreeBSD box to use a mirrored slice
for the OS. Everything working fine except that after I've made the
conversion I am no longer getting the normal boot menu, the one that
counts down
The phrase and copy the file systems over to the mirror worries
me. Do you actually copy the file systems, or do you let the mirror
system do it for you? In particular, are you mirroring file systems or
the entire disk? Because the boot blocks aren't part of any file
system, so you won't have
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:46:44 -0800
Peter Steele [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The phrase and copy the file systems over to the mirror worries
me. Do you actually copy the file systems, or do you let the mirror
system do it for you? In particular, are you mirroring file systems or
the entire disk?
He had you install a stock MBR on the second disk. You never copied
the boot loader from the first disk, so that's what you're going to
use when you boot from the second disk. You need to install the boot
block you want on the second disk. Which probably means
boot0. boot0cfg will do that for you.
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