Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2020 21:26:42 -0800 From: Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> To: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Adding a swap partition to the March 5 snapshot image Message-ID: <58BB6CC3-34C7-413F-9ED4-D84E63FBCD2D@yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20200306045443.GA19058@www.zefox.net> References: <20200306045443.GA19058@www.zefox.net>
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On 2020-Mar-5, at 20:54, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote: > > I've been trying for a while to set up an armv7 RPI2 with a single > root partition plus a swap partition at the end of mmcsd0. Letting > firstboot invoke growfs seems not to help, since growfs leaves no > space for swap. > > Attempts using gpart in single-user give the appearance of > working, but on reboot the machine stops at the mountroot prompt. > This method worked well in July of 2018. Seemingly, no more. > > Has something changed? > > Mounting the armv7 card on a second Freebsd box and making the changes > appears to work also, but on the initial boot (firstboot disabled) the > machine stops at the mountroot prompt on initial boot. > > If there's a better way to pursue the same end I'd be grateful for > a hint. Perhaps giving a swap size parameter to firstboot? You have not reported what shows if you enter a "?" command at the mountroot prompt. (As I remember that lists what mount root classifies as available.) That might prove to be useful information. === Mark Millard marklmi at yahoo.com ( dsl-only.net went away in early 2018-Mar)
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