Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 18:21:14 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>, David Boyd <David.Boyd49@twc.com>, FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Firstboot behavior, was Re: New vm-image size is much smaller than previos Message-ID: <20190505012114.GA34528@www.zefox.net> In-Reply-To: <201905041303.x44D30CW097600@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <20190504033340.GB26932@www.zefox.net> <201905041303.x44D30CW097600@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 06:03:00AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>
> Do we even have install note(s) pages for these things, or a wiki page
Not that I know of.
> that documents it, or ? Working around /firstboot does not require
> a serial console, if you know about it ahead of time, you can even
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
8-)
The statement is true. The gymnastics required to
> mount the sd image up on another system, and remove firstboot if you
> want, or create a swap partition at the end of the device, make the
> boot partition use up the rest and then iirc growfs on firstboot does
> what you want. (Untested at this time, but that should just work.)
are far from trivial, even for experienced foot-shooters such as myself.
A Pi running Raspbian can download and write the FreeBSD image, but it
can't mount ufs to manipulate files. I'm not sure about Mac OS and Windows.
That's a likely starting scenario for potential users of FreeBSD on the Pi.
AFAIK it's still necessary to boot single-user, set up the microSD (which is
a considerable challenge using gpart unless one is in good practice) and then
let the system go to multi-user. Last time I checked, u-boot (or maybe it's
loader) couldn't read the USB keyboard to execute boot -s so the system
essentially runs away from the user's control. I admit not having checked
in the last few months, but even if it's fixed asking a new user to start
by using gpart is unlikely to encourage further exploration.
Thanks for your attention!
bob prohaska
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