Re: Loading gzipped mfsroot

From: Iasen Kostov (tbyte_at_otel.net)
Date: 11/29/05

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    To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:02:41 +0200

    On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 19:19 +0200, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
    > 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.
    >
    >
            Yaik I don't think thats obvious to the "normal" user :)
    It should be somewhere in handbook atleast around diskless operations
    chapter. Probably this will make it searchable via google and etc...

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