From owner-freebsd-small Thu Mar 22 11: 5:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7AB637B71A for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:05:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA25901; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:04:51 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200103221904.UAA25901@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: top in PicoBSD In-Reply-To: from Alexey Koptsevich at "Mar 22, 2001 09:53:24 pm" To: Alexey Koptsevich Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:04:51 +0100 (CET) Cc: Andrzej Bialecki , small@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Well, it would be great, but how to set up etherboot for old noname > ne2000-compatible cards (some of them are even ISA)? Is there a guide > somewhere in the Internet? I've read 'man diskless' but have not found it > sufficient... /usr/ports/net/etherboot cheers luigi > Thanks, > Alex > > > > In your setup, why don't you just use etherboot to > > load the kernel and mount everything over nfs (saving the trouble > > and limitations of going through picobsd) ? > > > > Apart from creating a shared readonly root partition (for which i > > have a script, but it is not committed yet), > > /etc/rc.diskless[12] do almost everything you need, i have been using > > them for over 2 years now. > > > > cheers > > luigi > > > > > > Read again carefully the above paragraph I wrote: libkvm depends on the > > > > accessibility of the file that contains unstripped, ungzipped binary image > > > > of the running kernel. You don't have it in the standard versions of > > > > PicoBSD. Ergo: libkvm fails to work properly. > > > > > > OK, thanks, I've got it. Maybe, workaround for my case (i.e. when PicoBSD > > > is used only for boot and /usr then exported from host running real > > > FreeBSD) would be to save unstripped, ungzipped binary image of the > > > running kernel somewhere during picobsd build process and then copy it > > > from this FreeBSD server to picobsdhost:/kernel via NFS from /etc/rc. The > > > former should not be too hard (I believe one more line in pico make file, > > > right? the more so that there is no need in implementing it into the > > > standard src tree, I may do it myself locally), the latter is even more > > > easy. Could you give me a hint me what line and where should I insert to > > > enable the unstripped kernel save? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Alex > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message