From owner-freebsd-geom@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 22 09:39:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A51916A4DD for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:39:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.201.231]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7E98843D46 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:39:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 40473 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jul 2006 09:39:28 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=XPyxkbOYF1IQGwX9slfXhb7cPOPDYa0l/aFooBVTD/fCnQuiTUHp/aJNo06wYFug49SYc2ZJ+t3le7j3V6yzaUZGmaqWgxsmzWhKBX3qnJgUrxr5GmqOZ0DVMfNyHwhN4axYQ7N1xqh041Repmwq2bxuw8/S6c1Bkk/vYxXwNPU= ; Message-ID: <20060722093928.40471.qmail@web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [213.54.80.236] by web30313.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:39:28 PDT Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:39:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "R. B. Riddick" To: Fluffles , freebsd-geom@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44C1EF02.70707@fluffles.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: Re: GELI on root partition -- problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 09:39:30 -0000 --- Fluffles wrote: > Regarding step 2: I can extract the archives of base and kernels, they > are on the install cd and "base" even has an install.sh script. But i > guess installing is more than copying files: i should make the slice > (ad0s3) bootable; so that my BIOS or boot loader like GAG can boot from > it. How is that done? > As far as I understood it, "installing" is just "un-tar-ing" those tar-ball-chunk-groups in the right order (the chunks should be lexicographically ordered)... I make a slice bootable as follows: 1. "fdisk -a3 ad0" or so... 2. "bsdlabl -B ad0s3" and possibly setting up partitions with "bsdlabel -e ad0s3" (I made good experience with partition "a" starting not before sector 16... I dont know if it is necessary, but it feels like... Maybe the boot process needs those first 16 sectors?) 3. "boot0cfg -m 15 -s 3 ad0" or so Then it should be able to boot from ad0s3... -Arne __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com