Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic Image

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

At least in the case of FreeBSD, you need to make sure you change
/boot/loader.conf in the image to use the VGA as console (I gather that
is what you are using).  Otherwise, once the kernel starts it will output
to the serial line.

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:50:37PM -0800, Timothy Ficarra wrote:
> I succeeded in creating the customized images. Unfortunately, I have not succeeded in booting those images.
> 
> When I get to the boot console:
> Entering boot wait mode. Type ^C for interactive mode ...
> Part:1
> Loading MBR and booting system partition 1
> 
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
> Consoles: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS drive C: is disk0
> BIOS 640kB/2094619kB available memory
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (root@node.newimage.emulab-ops.emulab.net, Mon Jan 8 12:49:40 MST 2007)
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> 
> At this point the screen flickers, and it does nothing more. I have a very similar problem with FC6. It will call up GRUB but freeze at 
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> 
> Regards,
> T Ficarra
> 
> --- On Wed, 11/11/09, 'Ryan Jackson' <rdjackso@flux.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> From: 'Ryan Jackson' <rdjackso@flux.utah.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic Image
> To: "Cheng Cui" <ccui1@tigers.lsu.edu>
> Cc: Testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu
> Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 3:36 PM
> 
> * 'Ryan Jackson' <rdjackso@flux.utah.edu> [091111 13:18]:
> > I'll be uploading an updated MFS with a perl script that will run in
> > the admin MFS which you can use to mount a FreeBSD slice.? Make sure
> > you've re-scanned the partition table, then do the following:
> > 
> > # /etc/testbed/mount_bsd_slice /dev/sda1 /mnt
> > 
> > If all goes well, you should be back at a prompt with your FreeBSD
> > system mounted at /mnt (with the /usr and /var partitions mounted at
> > /mnt/usr and /mnt/var respectively).
> 
> It's up at http://www.emulab.net/downloads/linux_boot.tar.gz.? You can
> just extract the linux_mfs.tar.gz tarball into /tftpboot like before
> and ignore the rest of the stuff (nothing else has changed).
> 
> The mount_bsd_slice script will automatically figure out which Linux
> partitions are mapped to which BSD partitions, and mount all of the
> UFS partitions in the BSD slice in the correct order.? It should even
> work if you have more than our standard 3 BSD partitions (/, /usr, and
> /var).
> 
> Unfortunately, you'll need to unmount everything manually.? Run
> 'mount' to see what's mounted underneath the mountpoint you passed to
> mount_bsd_slice and unmount each partition manually.
> 
> Let me know if you have any problems.
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