Re: FreeBSD, boot environments and /dev

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 11:38 PM Dave Cottlehuber <dch@skunkwerks.at> wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2022, at 14:58, Michael Schuster wrote:
> > I then created a new BE, mounted it on /mnt, removed /mnt/dev/* (only
> > regular files and empty directories). Booting into that BE didn't work
> > either, I got errors about missing "/dev/" files (can't recall the
> > exact names).
> >
> > What do you guys (plural ;-)) think?
>

Hi Dave,
thx for your perseverance :-)

I have (at least) one question for you before I attempt this:

> this works for me:
>
> # zfs create -o canmount=noauto -o mountpoint=/ zroot/ROOT/vanilla
> # bectl mount vanilla /mnt
> # cd /some/path/to/sets/
> # tar xzpf ./kernel.txz -C /mnt/
> # tar xzpf ./base.txz -C /mnt/
>

showing my ignorance here: where do I get these .txz files?

# tzsetup -C /mnt UTC
> # pwd_mkdb -p -d /mnt/etc /mnt/etc/master.passwd
> # ln -s /usr/home /mnt/home
> ### copy in & amend /etc/fstab /etc/rc.conf /boot/loader.conf as required
>

should devfs be in /etc/fstab? in my current BE, it isn't ...
if so: do you have an example of such a line? In the instances I looked up,
I wasn't quite able to make it work (but perhaps that's a dead end anyway).

# bectl activate -t vanilla
>

does that ("activate -t") work on UEFI systems? The last time I used it (at
least a year ago), it wasn't.

Thx
Michael

# reboot
>
> try that and let us know what, if any, errors you get?
>
> A+
> Dave
>


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Michael Schuster
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