svn commit: r269621 - head/sys/boot/common

Bruce Simpson bms at fastmail.net
Wed Aug 6 08:58:32 UTC 2014


On 06/08/2014 01:36, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Log:
>    Optionally include the install command as found on Juniper products
>    like EX and SRX. The install command uses pkgfs to extract a kernel,
>    zero or more modules and a root file system from the specified package
>    and boots the kernel. The name of the kernel, the list of modules and
>    the name of the root file system can be specified by putting a
>    file called "metatags in the package.

Nice. This is going to be really useful for people building appliances, 
both as a low-level recovery mechanism, and/or upgrade mechanism.


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