Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 16:48:11 -0700 From: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Miguel C <miguelmclara@gmail.com>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, <sjg@juniper.net> Subject: Re: CTF: UEFI HTTP boot support Message-ID: <46934.1592351291@kaos.jnpr.net> In-Reply-To: <202006161650.05GGoj1M081828@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <202006161650.05GGoj1M081828@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > The "fake cd drive" is in the kernel, loader just copies the iso into > > memory like any other module, and by the time that's done you just > > reboot into the newly installed system, which again uses > > > > vfs.root.mountfrom="cd9660:/dev/md0.uzip" > ^^^ > > Argh, the cd9660 confused me, I think your doing a > "root on mfs/md"? loader.conf says rootfs_load="yes" rootfs_name="contents.izo" rootfs_type="md_image" vfs.root.mountfrom="cd9660:/dev/md0.uzip" contents.izo is uzip'd contents.iso which file(1) describes as ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data '' That's for normal boot, for the loader 'install' command it expects an uncompressed iso for rootfs.
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