panic on boot

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:58:33PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> "Petr Holub" <hopet at ics.muni.cz> writes:
> > Despite you couldn't guarantee it, it really helped and it boots now.
> > I've used the binary loader available from ~kib site and just replaced
> > it on the original ISO: mdcondifig -> mount ->
> > tar cf - | (cd elswhere && tar xvpf -) -> replace the loader -> mkisomages.sh
> 
> You realize that you can simply 'tar xf' an ISO image, instead of
> jumping through hoops with mdconfig?

Most FreeBSD users I know of (junior and senior) do not know about
libarchive(3), nor what's linked to it (tar).  Heck, even *I* didn't
know it had ISO9660 and ZIP support until I read the manpage; I thought
it was limited to tar, pax, and cpio archives.

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