Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 07:37:42 -0500 From: Mike Remski <mremski@comcast.net> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Scripting bsdinstall Message-ID: <3d8f953e-0bdf-4939-b127-668f73635d2b@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <CALH631n23WTeJgZma3Mi5i6-8fvymCA9sVh4hD1JVsMt6hDrMw@mail.gmail.com> 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>
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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=3D"base.txz kernel.txz lib32.txz"
> PARTITIONS=3D"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=3DDHCP
>
> 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=20
to what you want. GPART_BOOTCODE, GPART_BOOTCODE_PART and=20
GPART_BOOTCODE_PARTONLY, plus GPART_SET_ACTIVE and GPART_SET_PMBR_ACTIVE. =20=
I know you are using UFS, but it may help figure out what you need.
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