Loading gzipped mfsroot

[Iasen Kostov]

On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 09:18 -0500, David S. Madole wrote:
> From: "Iasen Kostov" <tbyte at otel.net>
> 
> > I've seen a lot of examples where peeple load gzipped mfsroot images
> > and everything looks fine for them, but not for me. It loads
> > uncompressed image and boots ok, it loads compressed image and does not
> > uncompress it and then tries to mount ufs directly on it which fails
> > ofcourse. As I saw bay default loader(and pxeboot porbably - its a
> > diskless machine which boots over ethernet) have LOADER_GZIP_SUPPORT
> > defined so I think I should have gzip support in loader.
> >
> > Here is the loader.conf:
> >
> > rootfs_load="YES"
> > rootfs_name="dlroot.gz"
> > rootfs_type="mfs_root"
> 
> I've not users this in quite a while, so I may be wrong here, but I think 
> what you need is:
> 
> rootfs_name="dlroot"
> 
> If gzip support is compiled in, it will automatically try to fetch 
> dlroot.gz first and if it succeeds, it will uncompress and use it. The 
> way you have configured it, it tries dlroot.gz.gz, which fails, so then 
> it tried to load dlroot.gz as an uncompressed file.
> 
> David
> 

	Thanks a lot ! That do the trick :)
It will realy be good if this is documented somewhere - probably in
loader(8) manual page ... And will save people some hours of "blessing"
loader(8) :)