Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 17:21:12 -0800 From: Patrick Powell <papowell@astart.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Scripting bsdinstall Message-ID: <72fa9e36-4460-c09c-25a8-b8157bacccdb@astart.com> In-Reply-To: <a151f21d-eb12-40f5-ab01-1b826500d11a@comcast.net> References: <CALH631=S0d9kmYRNrG5PVg9rqUF80Ko_Z5DsP=9dGKQKodW5Hg@mail.gmail.com> <96ecfc02-04f6-7222-4582-3740c505c7e5@FreeBSD.org> <CALH631mswuj3xXJ8O96PKCBZUpBUWJ%2Bg0CsP0Cr7GTi1BbLS9w@mail.gmail.com> <CALH631n23WTeJgZma3Mi5i6-8fvymCA9sVh4hD1JVsMt6hDrMw@mail.gmail.com> <3d8f953e-0bdf-4939-b127-668f73635d2b@comcast.net> <CALH631nCwYOT3xaf1duf-aJTMdR433Gtsh-rKv2OBjk7daxShA@mail.gmail.com> <a151f21d-eb12-40f5-ab01-1b826500d11a@comcast.net>
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On 2019-12-25 04:48, Mike Remski wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 7:43:26 AM EST, Gleb Popov wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 4:37 PM Mike Remski <mremski@comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 4:31:50 AM EST, Gleb Popov wrote:
>>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 9:47 PM Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 4:51 PM Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> ...
>>>
>>> I had to do all these "bsdinstall" invocations in the preamble
>>> because I
>>> wanted to set up partitions in my way. It turned out that the value of
>>> PARTITIONS variable is directly passed to "bsdinstall scriptedpart",
>>> so my
>>> installerscript got reduced to
>>>
>>> DISTRIBUTIONS="base.txz kernel.txz lib32.txz"
>>> PARTITIONS="ada0 gpt { 512K freebsd-boot , 2G freebsd-ufs / , 4G
>>> freebsd-swap , 8G freebsd-ufs /var , 4G freebsd-ufs /tmp , auto
>>> freebsd-ufs
>>> /usr }"
>>>
>>> #!/bin/sh
>>>
>>> sysrc ifconfig_DEFAULT=DHCP
>>>
>>> It now works, and even the second part gets properly executed.
>>>
>>> However, no boot loader gets installed. Skimming through "bsdinstall
>>> bootconfig" source reveals that it only supports installing boot
>>> files for
>>> UEFI loader. What should I do in case of BIOS?
>> In bsdinstall/scripts/zfsboot there are a couple things that look
>> related to what you want. GPART_BOOTCODE, GPART_BOOTCODE_PART and
>> GPART_BOOTCODE_PARTONLY, plus GPART_SET_ACTIVE and
>> GPART_SET_PMBR_ACTIVE. I know you are using UFS, but it may help
>> figure out what you need.
>>
>> Thanks for these, but I ended up adding
>>
>> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0
>>
>> to the second part of the script. It should be noted that it wasn't
>> working without "-b /boot/pmbr" part.
>
> Ahh. I think at one time you needed to do them as separate gpart
> commands then you needed to have both options on the same command.
> Glad you got it working.
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As a highly interested outside observer, is it possible to put this
accumulated wisdom into a document and put it on a FreeBSD Web Site?
Scripting FreeBSD installs seems to be a lost, or at least, arcane Art.
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