From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Mon Sep 19 16:35:44 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-virtualization@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCD3BE1B4E for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:35:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from vm.unsane.co.uk (unsane-pt.tunnel.tserv5.lon1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f08:110::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0511D48 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:35:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vince@unsane.co.uk) Received: from Vincents-MacBook-Pro-2.local (lon.namesco.net [195.7.254.102]) by vm.unsane.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 96A8E30005 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:35:43 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Directions Faulty. To: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org References: <3a5ded2c-4add-4fda-1168-491b30148768@freebsd.org> From: Vincent Hoffman-Kazlauskas Message-ID: <5334eb2f-c4ac-7046-5ba4-8e25bf52bcf9@unsane.co.uk> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:35:42 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion of various virtualization techniques FreeBSD supports." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:35:44 -0000 On 19/09/2016 17:18, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Allan Jude wrote: > >> On 2016-09-19 02:45, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: >>>> ... which fails because the cd image doesn't contain /boot/grub. I've >>>> tried directing it with -d /isolinux and -g /isolinux/isolinux.cfg ... >>>> but the magic isn't there. >>>> >>>> Frustration. >> >> The earlier instructions for doing the install from the CD, include >> instructions on using grubs interactive interface to poke around and >> find the initramfs and kernel and load them manually. > > > Obviously, since I talked about what was on the disk, I was doing that. > > The problems are that there are several vmlinuz and several initrd.img on > the CD. I've even mounted the cd9660 filesystem and wandered around > reading the files. I have tried the kernel and initrd in /isolinux and in > /live ... they fail to boot with something about "/sbin/init missing" while > iniitrd is still mounted. > > I gather that some set of kernel boot options is what I'm missing, but I > haven't been able to find those yet. took a quick gander at the isolinux configs for debian-live-8.6.0-amd64-standard.iso isolinux/live.cfg says kernel: /live/vmlinuz initrd: /live/initrd.img and to append (kernel arguments): boot=live components quiet splash Live (amd64 failsafe) has append (kernel arguments): boot=live components memtest noapic noapm nodma nomce nolapic nomodeset nosmp nosplash vga=normal install.cfg suggests kernel: /install/vmlinuz initrd: /install/initrd.gz append (kernel arguments): vga=788 --- quiet Hope that helps. Vince > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >