[CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

[Matthias Gamsjager]

Hi,

tried 10-8 iso in Virtualbox but after reboot I was looking at a bootloader
with a nice '-' but nothing more.
post setup 'gpart list' showed no entries at all.




On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 5:49 AM, Allan Jude <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:

> On 2013-10-07 15:59, Allan Jude wrote:
> > Devin Teske and I have been working on a big patch to bsdinstall to
> > implement installing on a ZFS pool. It supports both GPT and MBR, the 4k
> > sector gnop trick, and optional GELI encryption. We would like to commit
> > this in time for 10.0-BETA1 so it needs some testing to work out any
> > obvious bugs before we send it off to re@ to get it committed.
> >
> > It includes a single configuration menu that allows you to select all of
> > the required details, including which drives to use (gets details from
> > camcontrol, also includes an inspection utility that presents the
> > detailed output of camcontrol inquiry/identify, and gpart show), what
> > ZFS RAID level to use (taking in to consideration the selected number of
> > drives), GPT/mbr, 4k YES/no, GELI yes/NO, pool name, etc.
> >
> >
> > Additional, it includes some other changes to bsdinstall:
> > 1. Change the default to the 'non-standard keyboard mapping' prompt to no
> > 2. Replace the 3 separate dialogs to configure an ipv4 address with just
> 1
> > 3. Remove the dialog asking if you wish to enable crash dumps, this
> > feature has been combined into the regular 'services to enable' dialog
> > and enabled by default
> >
> >
> > You can browse the patches here:
> > http://druidbsd.cvs.sf.net/viewvc/druidbsd/bsdinstall_zfs/
> >
> > I've built a bootonly.iso (10.0-ALPHA4) to make testing easier,
> > available compressed (48 MB) or uncompressed (211 MB):
> >
> > http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/zfsbootonly_2013-10-06.iso.xz
> >
> > http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/zfsbootonly_2013-10-06.iso
> >
> >
> > We look forward to your feedback
> >
>
> We've made more improvements, including corporating most all of the
> feedback we've gotten so far
>
>
> Outstanding items:
> 1. Apply the changes to ipv6 config the way we did ipv4
> 2. improve disk identification (model info and serial # instead of one
> or the other)
> 3. Include a helpful message before the GELI step where you have to
> enter your password many times, the user will be less confused if it is
> explained why they have to enter their password 3 * number of disks times
> 4. Validate vdev type choice inside the vdev type menu, and warn the
> user if they have made an invalid selection, so they can add more disks
> or chance their selection, without having to try to start the
> installation first
> 5. Whatever else you guys find wrong tonight
>
> I generated new test images, and attached the patch (which got REALLY
> big when Devin Teske decided to fix "all of the things":
>
> http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/zfsbootonly.2013-10-08.iso.xz
>
> http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/zfsbootonly.2013-10-08.iso
>
>
> --
> Allan Jude
>
>
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