Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:02:41 +0200 From: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@otel.net> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot Message-ID: <1133262161.70996.24.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> In-Reply-To: <20051128171945.GD62631@ip.net.ua> References: <1133186851.70996.11.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <077601c5f426$9aeac960$c3e7a8c0@david> <1133188691.70996.18.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <20051128171945.GD62631@ip.net.ua>
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On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:19 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 04:38:11PM +0200, Iasen Kostov wrote: > > 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) :) > > > loader(8) has no business documenting this; it's already documented > (though not too verbose) in the libstand(3) manpage. > > Yaik I don't think thats obvious to the "normal" user :) It should be somewhere in handbook atleast around diskless operations chapter. Probably this will make it searchable via google and etc...
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