Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2019 07:48:38 -0500 From: Mike Remski <mremski@comcast.net> To: Gleb Popov <6yearold@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Scripting bsdinstall Message-ID: <a151f21d-eb12-40f5-ab01-1b826500d11a@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <CALH631nCwYOT3xaf1duf-aJTMdR433Gtsh-rKv2OBjk7daxShA@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> <3d8f953e-0bdf-4939-b127-668f73635d2b@comcast.net> <CALH631nCwYOT3xaf1duf-aJTMdR433Gtsh-rKv2OBjk7daxShA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 7:43:26 AM EST, Gleb Popov wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 4:37 PM Mike Remski <mremski@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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:
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>>> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 4:51 PM Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> ...
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>> 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 ,=20
>> 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.
>
> Thanks for these, but I ended up adding
>
> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0
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> to the second part of the script. It should be noted that it=20
> wasn't working without "-b /boot/pmbr" part.
Ahh. I think at one time you needed to do them as separate gpart commands=20=
then you needed to have both options on the same command. =20
Glad you got it working.
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