Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:19:45 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@otel.net> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "David S. Madole" <david@madole.net> Subject: Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot Message-ID: <20051128171945.GD62631@ip.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <1133188691.70996.18.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> References: <1133186851.70996.11.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net> <077601c5f426$9aeac960$c3e7a8c0@david> <1133188691.70996.18.camel@DraGoN.OTEL.net>
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--T7mxYSe680VjQnyC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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> > >=20 > > > 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 n= ot > > > 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=3D"YES" > > > rootfs_name=3D"dlroot.gz" > > > rootfs_type=3D"mfs_root" > >=20 > > I've not users this in quite a while, so I may be wrong here, but I thi= nk=20 > > what you need is: > >=20 > > rootfs_name=3D"dlroot" > >=20 > > If gzip support is compiled in, it will automatically try to fetch=20 > > dlroot.gz first and if it succeeds, it will uncompress and use it. The= =20 > > way you have configured it, it tries dlroot.gz.gz, which fails, so then= =20 > > it tried to load dlroot.gz as an uncompressed file. > >=20 > > David > >=20 >=20 > 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) :) >=20 loader(8) has no business documenting this; it's already documented (though not too verbose) in the libstand(3) manpage. Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --T7mxYSe680VjQnyC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDizwxqRfpzJluFF4RAjzeAJ4lNQE/OZ8URi1qFU4iQ1EVWtVfkQCcCmMQ hmuqf9uW/Rrk4S7cQy/mQt8= =/sQn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T7mxYSe680VjQnyC--
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