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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