Hello,
I finally managed to install DragonFly BSD in a dual-boot setting with OpenBSD
on my machine. Thank you all for your valuable comments. Long story short, I had
to select the sysid for the DragonFly slice 165 and for the OpenBSD slice 166.
Also, I had to create a separate disklabel partition for the /boot directory as
the fist partition on the slice and format it with msdos. Finally, I installed
the
boot0 bootloader in the MBR of the hard drive in order to be able to select
from a menu
which partition to boot.
Here follows in more detail what I did (Any commentaries on my questions and
notes are welcome):
Manual BIOS installation of DragonFly BSD with OpenBSD in a classical MBR
setting:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=1m # zero out the disk to start clean
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=32 # zero out the disk to start clean
fdisk -Bi /dev/da0 # initialize sector 0 of the disk and install the MBR
bootstrap code
fdisk da0
# The hard drive has a total number of sectors: 625142448
# create 2 slices: da0s0: 150 GiB for DragonFly and da0s1: 150 GiB for OpenBSD
# sysid for the dragonfly slice: 165 (supply explicitly, do not accept the
default!)
# sysid for the openBSD slice: 166
# size: 314572800 (final size after corrections: 314560449)
# slice 2 starts at sector: 314560449 + 63 + 1 = 314560513 and has size
# 625142448 - 314560513 = 310581935. After corrections: start at 314560575,
# size 310576833.
I was not able to figure out how to tell fdisk to simply select the rest of the
drive for
slice 2. Any ideas?
# Caution: 4 partitions are shown even if they do not exist. The 4th partition
# encompasses the whole disk and has to be deleted. For this purpose, it has to
# get a sysid of 0, start at 0, and have a size of 0.
# Note: after writing the partition table two mesages appear:
# da0s1: cannot find label (no disk label)
# da0s2: cannot find label (no disk label)
# make da0s1 bootable
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0s1 bs=512 count=32
disklabel64 -r -w -B /dev/da0s1 auto # Write a new
standard volume label and install the bootstrap code for partition da0s1.
disklabel64 -e /dev/da0s1 # Add the
disklabel partitions to /dev/da0s1
# add
a: 1G 0 4.2BSD # the boot partition
# add
# size offset fstype fsuuid
b: 8G * swap
to add `b' partition with fstype `swap' and
size 8GB
# add
d: 50G * HAMMER
to add a 50GB root `d' partition with fstype
`HAMMER'
# add
e: * * HAMMER
to add home partition spanning the rest of
the slice
# Note: I tried with the HAMMER2 filesystem, but the partitions failed to mount
on the next steps.
# That is why I remained with HAMMER
newfs /dev/da0s1a # format the boot partition with UFS
newfs_hammer -L ROOT /dev/da0s1d # format the root partition with HAMMER
newfs_hammer -L HOME /dev/da0s1e # format the home partition with HAMMER
mount_hammer /dev/da0s1d /mnt # mount the root partition: this fails
with HAMMER2
mkdir /mnt/boot
mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/boot
mkdir /mnt/home
mount_hammer /dev/da0s1e /mnt/home # this also fails with HAMMER2
# copy the file systems:
cpdup /boot /mnt/boot # copy the boot partititon
cpdup / /mnt # copy the root file system
# some system configuration:
vi /mnt/etc/fstab # add
/dev/da0s1a /boot ufs rw 1 1
/dev/da0s1b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/da0s1d / hammer rw 1 1
/dev/da0s1e /home hammer rw 1 1
vi /mnt/boot/loader.conf # add
vfs.root.mountfrom="hammer:da0s1d"
#Finally, unmount the partitions and reboot the machine. Once the machine is in
reset, before it hits the BIOS, unplug your installation media:
umount /mnt/boot
umount /mnt/home
umount /mnt
boot0cfg -B /dev/da0 # makes boot0 recognize the other available slices
reboot
________________________________________
Von: Tobias Heilig [0x7...@web.de]
Gesendet: Freitag, 2. November 2018 01:39
An: Dr. Martin Ivanov
Cc: users@dragonflybsd.org
Betreff: Re: AW: DragonFly BSD manual install: cannot boot
Hi Martin,
first, let's have a look at this quote from the prologue section of fdisk(8)
man page:
In order for the BIOS to boot the kernel, certain conventions must be adhered
to.
Sector 0 of the disk must contain boot code, a slice table, and a magic number.
BIOS slices can be used to break the disk up into several pieces. The BIOS
brings
in sector 0 and verifies the magic number. The sector 0 boot code then searches
the
slice table to determine which slice is marked ``active''. This boot code then
brings
in the bootstrap from the active slice and, if marked bootable, runs it.
so, your first step
fdisk -iB /dev/da0 # initialize sector 0 of the disk and install the MBR
is correct; namely initializing sector 0 with the mbr bootcode from /boot/mbr.
your second step
# [...] I marked da0s1 as active.
is also correct.
now, the partition table is where you did a mistake, i guess. to my
understanding
the first partition of the active slice should contain the bootstrap (/boot)
mentioned by the fdisk(8) quote to start your system. it is also done like that
in the example from the handbook [1]. this is missing in your partition layout.
so, maybe change this
disklabel64 -e da0s1
a: 50G * HAMMER # the root partition
b: 8G * swap
d: * * HAMMER # the /home partition
to this instead
disklabel64 -e da0s1
a: 1G * 4.2BSD # the /boot partition (format as UFS)
b: 8G * swap
d: 50G * HAMMER # the / partition
e: * * HAMMER # the /home partition
you can find further instructions on formatting the partitions afterwards as
well
as copying the system data and editing the /boot/loader.conf and /etc/fstab
files
under [1].
i hope i did understand everything correctly and this is of any help to you.
[1] https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/Installation/#index3h1
--
best regards,
Tobi
