Adding a swap partition to the March 5 snapshot image

[Mark Millard]

On 2020-Mar-5, at 20:54, bob prohaska <fbsd at www.zefox.net> wrote:
> 
> I've been trying for a while to set up an armv7 RPI2 with a single
> root partition plus a swap partition at the end of mmcsd0. Letting
> firstboot invoke growfs seems not to help, since growfs leaves no
> space for swap.
> 
> Attempts using gpart in single-user give the appearance of 
> working, but on reboot the machine stops at the mountroot prompt.
> This method worked well in July of 2018. Seemingly, no more. 
> 
> Has something changed? 
> 
> Mounting the armv7 card on a second Freebsd box and making the changes 
> appears to work also, but on the initial boot (firstboot disabled) the 
> machine stops at the mountroot prompt on initial boot.
> 
> If there's a better way to pursue the same end I'd be grateful for
> a hint. Perhaps giving a swap size  parameter to firstboot? 

You have not reported what shows if you enter a "?" command at the
mountroot prompt. (As I remember that lists what mount root
classifies as available.)

That might prove to be useful information.

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Mark Millard
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