From owner-freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org Mon Sep 19 23:53:28 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 5F613BE1900 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:53:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from alto.onthenet.com.au (alto.OntheNet.com.au [203.13.68.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ABBEDD5 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 23:53:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grehan@freebsd.org) Received: from iredmail.onthenet.com.au (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [203.13.68.150]) by alto.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A81BC20A40D1 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:53:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by iredmail.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BDF0280A51 for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:53:08 +1000 (AEST) X-Amavis-Modified: Mail body modified (using disclaimer) - iredmail.onthenet.com.au Received: from iredmail.onthenet.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iredmail.onthenet.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id PDt-BrW_Mxru for ; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:53:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from Peters-MacBook-Pro-2.local (96-82-80-65-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [96.82.80.65]) by iredmail.onthenet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0D66A2809E1; Tue, 20 Sep 2016 09:53:05 +1000 (AEST) Subject: Re: Directions Faulty. To: Justin Holcomb , Zaphod Beeblebrox References: <3a5ded2c-4add-4fda-1168-491b30148768@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org" From: Peter Grehan Message-ID: Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:53:15 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-CMAE-Score: 0 X-CMAE-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=VuVhOK+n c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=A6CF0fG5TOl4vs6YHvqXgw==:117 a=mwgbnDbW7alINpy3vhoKyg==:17 a=N659UExz7-8A:10 a=GW1xBdLrtEIA:10 a=CUq2dnGqfGREfnAhsYMA:9 a=pILNOxqGKmIA:10 wl=host:3 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 23:53:28 -0000 Hi, >> 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. > > > Zaphod: > > Try these commands with the following file contents: The install/netinstall ISOs have grub2 as the boot loader, but strangely the live ISOs use isolinux which requires grub commands. I've booted the 8.6 live ISO by using the following grub2 commands (after extracting them from a maze of nested isolinux cfg files): linux /live/vmlinuz boot=live components initrd /live/initrd.img boot This will drop to a login prompt, with an account/passwd of user/live later, Peter.