Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 16:38:11 +0200 From: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@otel.net> To: "David S. Madole" <david@madole.net> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot Message-ID: <1133188691.70996.18.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> In-Reply-To: <077601c5f426$9aeac960$c3e7a8c0@david> References: <1133186851.70996.11.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <077601c5f426$9aeac960$c3e7a8c0@david>
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On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:18 -0500, David S. Madole wrote: > From: "Iasen Kostov" <tbyte@otel.net> > > > I've seen a lot of examples where peeple load gzipped mfsroot images > > and everything looks fine for them, but not for me. It loads > > uncompressed image and boots ok, it loads compressed image and does not > > uncompress it and then tries to mount ufs directly on it which fails > > ofcourse. As I saw bay default loader(and pxeboot porbably - its a > > diskless machine which boots over ethernet) have LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT > > defined so I think I should have gzip support in loader. > > > > Here is the loader.conf: > > > > rootfs_load="YES" > > rootfs_name="dlroot.gz" > > rootfs_type="mfs_root" > > I've not users this in quite a while, so I may be wrong here, but I think > what you need is: > > rootfs_name="dlroot" > > If gzip support is compiled in, it will automatically try to fetch > dlroot.gz first and if it succeeds, it will uncompress and use it. The > way you have configured it, it tries dlroot.gz.gz, which fails, so then > it tried to load dlroot.gz as an uncompressed file. > > David > Thanks a lot ! That do the trick :) It will realy be good if this is documented somewhere - probably in loader(8) manual page ... And will save people some hours of "blessing" loader(8) :)
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