Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 10:07:37 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: experimental qemu-devel port update, please test! Message-ID: <46487B39.9090404@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20070424122511.GD2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <462ADE46.3080304@freebsd.org> <20070423192309.E77F65B3B@mail.bitblocks.com> <20070424112231.GC2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> <462DF345.8000606@freebsd.org> <20070424122511.GD2441@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On 04/24/07 07:25, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 07:08:37AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: >> On 04/24/07 06:22, Kostik Belousov wrote: >>> You may try the following patch for btx: >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/realbtx.2.patch >>> or take the pxeboot built from the patched source at >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/pxeboot >>> >>> Please, handle the patch with care - do not install /boot/boot2 or >>> /boot/loader built with patch on the machine without ability to boot >> >from removable media, since the changes are in earliest stage and were not >>> tested exhaustive. >> >> >> I can confirm this works like a charm!!!! >> >> I had to send pxelinux.0 to the QEMU system first, and then have it load >> the pxeboot file you created above (I used the binary). It boots my >> QEMU NFS root system perfectly.. >> >> AWESOME!!!! >> >> Anything else you want to test? > > Mostly, it lucks testing on the real hardware. As was mentioned, after the > patch applied, buildworld would create new boot2, loader and pxeloader. > Testing any of them on diverse real hardware is required before planning > to put the change into the CVS in some way. I've tested the pxeloader on a few pieces of real hardware, and all seems to work fine, and I see no regressions. Eric
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