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Flashboot for OpenBSD 5.1 is now available

Johan Ryberg — 2012-05-06T21:57:16

Hi

You will found Flashboot at Github: https://github.com/openbsd/flashboot

Prebuild bineries will be available within the next couple of days.

We need people to test some of the builds for example WRAP12, SOEKRIS4501
and
PCENGINES kernel.

  -- Johan Ryberg
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Booting with 5.0 image

NICOLAS BOULIANE — 2012-02-12T17:20:37

Eric Boudrand,

What file have you copied ? bsd or bsd.rd


peace,
Nicolas Bouliane

Re: Booting with 5.0 image

Eric Boudrand — 2012-01-31T18:20:34

Hi,

No. Only 5.0. I have to build a 4.9 system then. Or I will try to
download older binary releases.

Éric

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Re: Booting with 5.0 image

Eric Boudrand — 2012-01-31T18:15:53

Hi,

Le mardi 31 janvier 2012 à 17:15 +0000, Stuart Henderson a écrit :

Same result with boot -s

Éric


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Re: Booting with 5.0 image

Stuart Henderson — 2012-01-31T17:15:27

Looks a bit like there's no getty running on the serial port..
Do you get further if you boot into single-user mode?


On 2012/01/31 12:36, Eric Boudrand wrote:

Re: Booting with 5.0 image

Eric Boudrand — 2012-01-31T16:43:30

Hi,

Exactly. No more than that :(
If I plug a PCMCIA Wireless card, the log is finishing by  :

wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA48, 3815MB, 7813120 sectors                               
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings                                               
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16                
wi0 at pcmcia0 function 0 "INTERSIL, HFA384x/IEEE, Version 01.02" port 0xa000/64
wi0: PRISM2.5 ISL3873 (0x800c), Firmware 1.1.0 (primary), 1.4.9 (station), addr3

And nothing more.

I can boot with a Monowall system. Boot up log for Monowall is :

Consoles: internal video/keyboard  
BIOS drive C: is disk0
BIOS 639kB/64512kB available memory                                             
                                                                                
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1                                     
(root< at >mb64.neon1.net, Thu Jul 23 20:56:49 CEST 2009)                            
/kernel text=0x368050 data=0x3d474+0x22ef4 syms=[0x4

Re: Booting with 5.0 image

Johan Ryberg — 2012-01-31T16:03:19

Is that everything that happens? No more output?

//Johan
Den 31 jan 2012 12:36 skrev "Eric Boudrand" <eric.boudrand< at >caramail.com>:

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Booting with 5.0 image

Eric Boudrand — 2012-01-31T11:36:16

Hi,

I have tested SOEKRIS4521-50.image on a Soekris NET4511. The boot
sequence failed with this log :

boot>                                                                           
booting hd0a:/bsd: 53407060+463132 [61+127216+116991]=0x339ba3c                 
entry point at 0x200120                                                         
                                                                                
[ using 244684 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]                                  
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993                                      
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.      
Copyright (c) 1995-2011 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org   
                                                                                
OpenBSD 5.0 (SOEKRIS4521) #0: Wed Nov  2 12:07:42 MDT 2011                      

root< at >i386.builder:/obj/SOEKRIS4521                                          
cpu0: AMD Am486DX4 W/B or Am5x86

Re: New binary images up on tilde.se!

Johan Ryberg — 2012-01-04T07:48:57

Some libraries has grown very much but the kernel size does not seems to be
any problems any more so its not really any problem.

Best regards Johan
Den 4 jan 2012 06:36 skrev "James Records" <james.records< at >gmail.com>:

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Re: New binary images up on tilde.se!

James Records — 2012-01-04T05:35:59

Just noticed that all of these have been updated to 5.0.

Also why the jump in filesize i remember with 4.8 I was making images
around 7mb what happend that gets them 10 mb bigger with 5.0?

J

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Re: New binary images up on tilde.se!

Johan Ryberg — 2012-01-04T07:48:57

Some libraries has grown very much but the kernel size does not seems to be
any problems any more so its not really any problem.

Best regards Johan
Den 4 jan 2012 06:36 skrev "James Records" <james.records< at >gmail.com>:

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Re: New binary images up on tilde.se!

James Records — 2012-01-04T05:35:59

Just noticed that all of these have been updated to 5.0.

Also why the jump in filesize i remember with 4.8 I was making images
around 7mb what happend that gets them 10 mb bigger with 5.0?

J

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Flashboot for OpenBSD 5.0

Johan Ryberg — 2011-11-02T18:01:04

Hi

I have committed several changes to kernel configurations for Soekris,
WRAP12, PCEngines and COMMELL-LE564 to make Flashboot work on OpenBSD
5.0. We are also not using svnd any more since it has been integrated
to vnd

Since I only have Soekris 4801 and there need to be more testing on
other platforms to verify that it work as expected. Please test and
report back to the list.

I will put binaries on github (https://github.com/openbsd/flashboot)
to night and the downloads will be available from the wiki page.

Best regards Johan

New script for building OpenBSD installation image frominstall iso

Johan Ryberg — 2011-10-23T21:13:52

Hi.

I just added a new script to build image from OpenBSD install49.iso to
make a bootable USB installation pen drive.

The script is called build-usbinstallimage.sh

If any one could test the script I would be very happy. I have tested
it with both i386 and amd64 and it's possible to boot and install from
a usb stick. No more need to burn cd just for installations =)

There is how ever some kind of problem with OpenBSD own installation
script because it can't find the path to the files automatic since its
not from a CD. The path mounts upon question and the installation
proceeds without any problem.

Best regards Johan Ryberg

Re: Does the "TODO" still apply? - Problem with kernel> 16 Mb?

Rickard Dahlstrand — 2011-10-10T07:29:45

Agreed.

10 okt 2011 kl. 09:23 skrev Johan Ryberg:

Re: Does the "TODO" still apply? - Problem with kernel > 16 Mb?

Johan Ryberg — 2011-10-10T07:23:27

Then I suggest that we removes that "TODO" since it only creates
questions and uncertainty

// Johan

2011/10/10 Rickard Dahlstrand <rd< at >tilde.se>:

Re: Does the "TODO" still apply? - Problem with kernel> 16 Mb?

Rickard Dahlstrand — 2011-10-10T06:08:05

Hi,

I have never personally seen this issue, at that time it was uncommon, and now it might not even be an issue any more. I assume that if anyone has an issue with some HW, they will let us know.

Rickard.

9 okt 2011 kl. 13.25 skrev Johan Ryberg:

Does the "TODO" still apply? - Problem with kernel > 16Mb?

Johan Ryberg — 2011-10-09T11:25:00

Hi.

According to TODO:
[snip]
load kernels as 16Mb
 - will avoid isadma problems
 - need to modify kernel and boot loader
[/snip]

Does any one has the status of this? I have not spent a single thought
about this during my work since all my test has worked and we are now
building a kernel that are 48 Mb in size and I have not found a single
downside yet and I have tested Flashboot on Soekris 4801, Virtual Box,
misc laptops and custom made computers. They all boot and works as
expected.

Maybe never versions of the boot loader that we are using today don't
have this limit and this TODO is some kind of forgotten note that just
should be deleted?

// Johan

Flashboot 4.9 Pendrive image (USB-stick) - Please test

Johan Ryberg — 2011-10-03T21:03:03

Howdi folks

It's now possible to build a usb kernel and usb image.

I would love to see that some one tested the image. Binary download
can be found at github
(https://github.com/downloads/openbsd/flashboot/PENDRIVE.image) or
build by your self from scratch, it's all automatic =)

Best regards Johan Ryberg

Re: USB stick problem to solve

rancor — 2011-10-02T20:23:09

2011/10/2 Jussi Peltola <pelzi< at >pelzi.net>:

Thanks, but that does not solve the problem. I want the image to be
bootable on different hardware, not only this specific one.

I solved it by mounting /flash with duid instead of the device to make
it work independent of how many sd devices the hardware got.

This commit closes this issue:
https://github.com/openbsd/flashboot/commit/2882a54c799aabf5282204ce2e9285e8d87e4f7e

Best regards Johan

Re: USB stick problem to solve

Jussi Peltola — 2011-10-02T17:54:43

echo boot sd1a:bsd >> /etc/boot.conf