Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 18:57:18 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Stephen.Clark@seclark.us Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: btx crashes when booting 6.1 from usb cdrom Message-ID: <462CE56E.5090603@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <46155401.9010903@seclark.us> References: <4614F7C1.3010704@seclark.us> <20070405142809.GE308@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <46155401.9010903@seclark.us>
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Stephen Clark wrote: [...] >> If you could build custom boot images, try >> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx >> realbtx.2.patch is the patch, and loader is the /boot/loader built >> with that >> patch applied. If you could rearrange CD image with that loader put into >> /boot, then try to load from it and report results. >> >> CAUTION: Do not install boot2 or loader on your harddrive, code had very >> little exposure and may cause you machine to become unbootable. >> >> >> > Hi Konstantin, > > Thanks this worked. I have another question though. I mounted the distro > 1 cd and > cd to /cdrom and did > tar cSf - . |(cd /usr/myboot;tar xSf -) > so I could move in the new loader program. The problem is I ended up > with an > iso file system after I did > mkisofs -R -no-emul-boot -b boot/cdboot -o /tmp/bootable.iso /usr/myboot > that was 991mb which was to big to put on a CD. Where did I go wrong? > > Since this was only a test I rm'ed packages, rescue and release > directories, but how did it all > fit on the CD originally? Many files are hardlinked on the original media (for example all in /rescue is hardlink to one binary), but tar makes a copy of each file. Miroslav Lachman
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