Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 15:26:50 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Christopher Stein <stein@eecs.harvard.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd port of netboot?.. Message-ID: <200008302226.e7UMQoG95533@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200008301836.MAA17828@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.OSF.4.20.0008291444240.18775-100000@wally> Christopher Stein
writes:
> : .. does anyone know if this exists? It would
> : speed up the panic-edit-compile-boot-copy-boot kernel hacking
> : cycle by transforming it to panic-edit-compile-netboot.
>
> I usually mount everything readonly when I try a new module just
> before loading it. It saves a tone of time. All I gotta fsck on the
> way back up is /var since it won't mount ro after syslog starts, which
> makes sense if you think about it.
>
> mount -ur /
> mount -ur /usr
> moutn -ur /junk
>
> is what I have in a script. After it succeeds, I do a mount -uwa
> which updates all the mounts.
>
> You can also netboot via a ROM on your ethernet card or via floppy,
> but I've not done that. The above works well enough for me.
Also, if you have a PXE-aware network card or bios, netbooting
with a small ramdisk is very convenient for crash-and-burn testing.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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