Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot

From: Ruslan Ermilov (ru_at_freebsd.org)
Date: 11/28/05

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To: Iasen Kostov <tbyte@otel.net>

    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.

    Cheers, 

    -- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru@FreeBSD.org
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