Updated install ISO
Andreas Tobler
toa at pop.agri.ch
Sat May 21 05:09:22 PDT 2005
Hi Peter,
Peter Grehan wrote:
> You can artificially reduce the amount of RAM present from the loader
> prompt with
>
> OK set hw.physmem=512M
>
> ... or whatever value. It might be worthwhile to try it at 512M and see
> how it goes. The builds I've done have been on machines with 512 and 640M.
Coming back from a kernel trap now :) Wanted to cd /cdrom. Well, another
story.
I set to 512M and, oh wonder, both, a buildworld and a buildkernel
started promisingly. I was in gcc build when the trap happened.
So, I definitely have too much memory :)
Also, no problem with switching console, on one a buildkernel on another
one a buildworld and in a third some shell activities.
No weird errors nor sig 11 stuff.
The question about buildworld and buildkernel I should be able to answer
later when my trials finish.
I think I go through these steps now and see what I understand.
A boot question I have, my install sits on an external fw disk. Under
fbsd it's /dev/da0s3. How do I tell the loader to boot from this device?
Now I boot with:
cd:,\boot\loader
On the prompt I do:
set hw.physmem=512M
set currdev=cd:,
boot -s
on mountroot> I type:
ufs:/dev/da0s3
The I boot into fbsd.
from there I can login and play around.
So, is there a way to pack these steps into one file?
Thanks a lot,
Andreas
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