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

["Cheng Cui" <ccui1@tigers.lsu.edu>]

>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.

Yes, if I alter the BIOS Boot Priority to load from hard disk first, not
the PXE, the 6.4 kernel will work. I just do not know which section
caused the error, the MFS or the loader or something else. Anyway, I
would like to have a try to rebuild the kernel, it will be quite
helpful.

Glad to hear there will be a 7.2 generic image in the future. Thanks
very much.

Best Regards,

Cheng Cui
. Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803

-----Original Message-----
From: 'Ryan Jackson' [mailto:rdjackso@flux.utah.edu] 
Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:18 AM
To: Cheng Cui
Cc: Testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu
Subject: Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic
Image

* 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.