Re: [Testbed-admins] GENERIC images not working on newer hardware

[Ben Burnett <bburnett@atcorp.com>]

That sounds good.    I'll just copy the  /boot/kernel directory from
boss or ops then, since those boot just fine (same hardware).  They
are FreeBSD 6.3, so that should work right.  I'll do that and then see
if we can get the image to boot.   I'll also grab the fedora 8 image
and test that one.

Thanks,
--Ben

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Leigh Stoller<stoller@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
> el that works, copy the /boot/kernel directory and
> /boot/device.hints over to the Emulab image (via the MFS boot). This
> is much easier then turning a raw image into an Emulab image.
>
> Then if that boots, then you can apply the kernel patches and rebuild,
> plus build the other kernel variants you need on the image. The patch
> instructions are in patches/FreeBSD-6.3-src.README. If you get this
> far, I will send you a pointer for building the other kernels you
> need on the image.
>
> For Fedora, I think our current Fedora 8 image might boot on your
> hardware (I think the GENERIC Emulab image is an old Fedora 6).