Scripting bsdinstall

[Mike Remski]

On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 7:43:26 AM EST, Gleb Popov wrote:
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> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 4:37 PM Mike Remski <mremski at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 25, 2019 4:31:50 AM EST, Gleb Popov wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 9:47 PM Gleb Popov <arrowd at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>> On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 4:51 PM Matthew Seaman <matthew at freebsd.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>  ...
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>> I had to do all these "bsdinstall" invocations in the preamble because I
>> wanted to set up partitions in my way. It turned out that the value of
>> PARTITIONS variable is directly passed to "bsdinstall scriptedpart", so my
>> installerscript got reduced to
>>
>> DISTRIBUTIONS="base.txz kernel.txz lib32.txz"
>> PARTITIONS="ada0 gpt { 512K freebsd-boot , 2G freebsd-ufs / , 4G
>> freebsd-swap , 8G freebsd-ufs /var , 4G freebsd-ufs /tmp , 
>> auto freebsd-ufs
>> /usr }"
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> sysrc ifconfig_DEFAULT=DHCP
>>
>> It now works, and even the second part gets properly executed.
>>
>> However, no boot loader gets installed. Skimming through "bsdinstall
>> bootconfig" source reveals that it only supports installing boot files for
>> UEFI loader. What should I do in case of BIOS?
> In bsdinstall/scripts/zfsboot there are a couple things that look related 
> to what you want.  GPART_BOOTCODE, GPART_BOOTCODE_PART and 
> GPART_BOOTCODE_PARTONLY, plus GPART_SET_ACTIVE and GPART_SET_PMBR_ACTIVE.  
> I know you are using UFS, but it may help figure out what you need.
>
> Thanks for these, but I ended up adding
>
> gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 ada0
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> to the second part of the script. It should be noted that it 
> wasn't working without "-b /boot/pmbr" part.

Ahh.  I think at one time you needed to do them as separate gpart commands 
then you needed to have both options on the same command.  
Glad you got it working.