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

["'Ryan Jackson'" <rdjackso@flux.utah.edu>]

* Cheng Cui <ccui1@tigers.lsu.edu> [091113 20:56]:
> By the way, do you have a FreeBSD7.x version of generic image in Utah?
> Because I have tested to install a standard FreeBSD7.2 into disk from
> official distribution, and load it under both FBSD MFS and Linux MFS,
> both loading succeed. But the FreeBSD6.4 does not. So I wonder if this
> is a deeper bug in the version of OS, not MFS. Just guess...

We have nodes here on which 6.4 won't boot, so it may be that 6.4
won't work at all.

As an aside, it may be possible to boot 6.4 by having Grub boot the
FreeBSD kernel directly, but this would likely require a kernel
rebuild to include all drivers necessary to mount the root filesystem.
Of course, this also assumes that the 6.4 kernel recognizes all the
hardware anyway.  If you want to try it anyway, let me know and I'll
send you what you need.

I think Mike has been working on a 7.2 generic image.