Re: DF mountroot

[esmith <esmith@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :evs wrote: 
> :Looking at it now... 
> :cpdup / to /tmp/hd 
> :... 
> :
> :Max wrote: 
> :I think you are missing /dev, /var and maybe even a properly set-up 
> :/tmp. As they are mounted from seperate (mfs) 
> :partitions with the cd boot $cpdup / /tmp/hd won't copy them as well.
> :
> :
> :See /README on the cd. 
> :
> :Max, you correctly diagnosed the problem. I was missing the contents 
> :of /dev. All that was needed was to boot from the DF CD and cpdup 
> :/dev to /tmp/hd/dev. Now DragonFly boots perfectly from the hard
> :disk. 
> :Never having used cpdup before, I failed to notice that it does not 
> :cross boundaries, which is logical. 
> :
> :Failing to "mountroot ufs:/dev/ad0s1a" could have indicated to me to 
> :check to see if the device node was there to mount... but no error 
> :message was given by mountroot, and all of the other files were 
> :present on the hard drive ( including /var/* and /tmp ). 
> :
> :Now all I need is the nge ethernet driver from FreeBSD. 
>
>     Excellent!  I'm glad you got it working.  That's one to file away
>     in my memory.  
>
>     Hmm.  You know it seems to me that it would be logical to have the
>     init program check that at least /dev/null exists and print something
>     out if it doesn't.  Would someone like to post a patch to do that?
>     Testing such a patch would be easy, just rename /dev/null and reboot
>     and see if init complains :-), then reboot into the CD to fix it.
>
> 					-Matt
> 					Matthew Dillon 
> 					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Good idea checking /dev/null! As soon as I get ethernet configured, and 
"cvsup-date" everything, I'll take a run at adding that feature to init.