From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 8 13:53:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09F3A1065673 for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C688FC1F for ; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 13:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.60]) by qmta09.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id fRCJ1e0061HpZEsA9RtutH; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:53:54 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([98.248.41.155]) by omta14.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id fRtt1e0093LrwQ28aRttMM; Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:53:54 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5ADC19B423; Thu, 8 Jul 2010 06:53:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 06:53:53 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: "Mikhail T." Message-ID: <20100708135353.GA43460@icarus.home.lan> References: <4C34C5DE.7040007@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34CA31.7010804@aldan.algebra.com> <4C34E39A.7090905@aldan.algebra.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4C34E39A.7090905@aldan.algebra.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Randi Harper Subject: Re: net-booting the install disks (Re: 8.x grudges) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:53:55 -0000 On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 04:29:14PM -0400, Mikhail T. wrote: > 07.07.2010 16:00, Randi Harper написав(ла): > >So.... you're complaining that you have to modify the loader.conf? I > >fail to see the problem. This is by design, and isn't a lack of > >progress. > Yes, I complain, that I have to modify a loader.conf embedded in a > CD-image. If extracting hundreds of mega-bytes of files to make a > one-line modification is "by design", then the design is flawed. > Especially, when the effect achieved by the one-line modification > can be arrived to automatically -- without such modifications. Then don't modify loader.conf. Instead, once the "Welcome to FreeBSD!" portion of loader appears, press "6" to shell to the loader prompt and type: set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0" boot If you want me to test/verify that this works, I can do so when I get home in about an hour (I do have a PXE boot environment set up for testing). If it does work (I don't see why it wouldn't), your next question will be "then why doesn't your doc tell me to do it that way?", which I can answer as well: I based a small portion of my written documentation on what others had written. Many of the other docs advocated doing the same, particularly for setting serial port speed, comconsole, blah blah (because there is no /boot.config used in this boot environment, so you can't do something like add "-S115200 -Dh" to that file). I chose to continue using that nomenclature. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |