picobsd and freebsd 5.3

[Jean Milanez Melo]

Yuri Kurenkov wrote:

> Thanx, Luigi, for your development. You script modified for using 
> makefs works with RELENG_4 and RELENG_5 and help to me migrate my CF 
> versions from RELENG_4 to RELENG_5. But i take one small trouble: I 
> can't build 1400K floppy images - makefs say me:
>
> ----8<------8<------8<------
> `getarptab.o' is up to date.
> makefs: `/usr/src/release/picobsd/build/build_dir-tinet/mfs.tree' size 
> of 2359296 is larger than the maxsize of 2355200.
> ----8<------8<------8<------
>
> But native RELENG_4 `picobsd' build scrip make picobsd.bin with this 
> config set succesfully. Can you help with this trouble? I'm wating for 
> Your solutions :)
>
> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
>> maybe the attached version of the 'picobsd' script helps.
>>
>> I have removed the need to run with vnconfig and/or root privs,
>> and rely on "makefs" (from the ports). It also removes
>> one instance of {bsd|disk}label, so that might help.
>>
>> I have only tested this with 4.x and building picobsd
>> images based on 4.x and 5.x sources
>>
>>     cheers
>>     luigi
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 03:04:10PM -0400, john thomas wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there - I'm trying to use picobsd on freebsd 5.3 and having a few 
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> I am simply doing "/usr/src/release/picobsd/build/picobsd bridge" as
>>> root, accepting all the defaults and selecting 'build' from the
>>> dialog.  It sucessfully compiles the kernel, does crunchgen ok (with a
>>> few errors re: sshd which im confident I can fix in crunch.conf
>>> later), and then starts to build the floppy image and dies like this:
>>>
>>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
>>> /dev/md0c       2967 1311  1656    44%      70   376   16%  
>>> /tmp/picobsd.7g7xz6SAFI
>>> /dev/md0c: FILE SYSTEM CLEAN; SKIPPING CHECKS
>>> /dev/md0c: clean, 3312 free (8 frags, 413 blocks, 0.1% fragmentation)
>>> 0+1 records in
>>> 0+1 records out
>>> 13 bytes transferred in 0.000101 secs (128903 bytes/sec)
>>> disklabel -Brw -b /boot/boot1 -s /root/pico/build_dir-bridge/boot2 
>>> md0 auto
>>> usage: bsdlabel disk
>>>                (to read label)
>>>        bsdlabel -w [-n] [-m machine] disk [type]
>>>                (to write label with existing boot program)
>>>        bsdlabel -e [-n] [-m machine] disk
>>>                (to edit label)
>>>        bsdlabel -R [-n] [-m machine] disk protofile
>>>                (to restore label with existing boot program)
>>>        bsdlabel -B [-b boot] [-m machine] disk
>>>                (to install boot program with existing on-disk label)
>>>        bsdlabel -w -B [-n] [-b boot] [-m machine] disk [type]
>>>                (to write label and install boot program)
>>>        bsdlabel -R -B [-n] [-b boot] [-m machine] disk protofile
>>>                (to restore label and install boot program)
>>> ---> fail: Error <1> error code <floppy_disklabel> in <>
>>> Error while doing disklabel on of floppy.img size 1440
>>> ---> Aborting ./picobsd
>>>
>>> I added an echo of what seems to be the command that causes it to
>>> fail, you can see it in the output above but I'll also put it here:
>>> disklabel -Brw -b /boot/boot1 -s /root/pico/build_dir-bridge/boot2 
>>> md0 auto
>>> I'm pretty new to freebsd so I have no idea what that command is
>>> trying to achieve, but perusing the disklabel manpage shows no -r or
>>> -s arguments, and a quick look at
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/release/picobsd/build/picobsd
>>> shows that those options were both added in v1.29 (as well as a bunch
>>> of other things), which is the version that in 5.3.
>>>
>>> My end goal is to just end up with a kernel file (with embedded
>>> ramdisk image) that I can boot with grub (from a cf card), but I'm not
>>> sure how to fix the script to get there.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions would be great.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
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>
>
Hi Luigi,

Don't will you commit this "new" picobsd script?

-- 
Atenciosamente
Jean Milanez Melo
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