From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 31 11:15: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 769DB37B422 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:15:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whistle.com (crab.whistle.com [207.76.205.112]) by alpo.whistle.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA34853; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:10:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA98824; Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:09:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200008311809.LAA98824@whistle.com> Subject: Re: freebsd port of netboot?.. In-Reply-To: <200008302226.e7UMQoG95533@netplex.com.au> from Peter Wemm at "Aug 30, 2000 03:26:50 pm" To: Peter Wemm Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 11:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm writes: | Warner Losh wrote: | > In message Christopher Stein | writes: | > : .. does anyone know if this exists? It would | > : speed up the panic-edit-compile-boot-copy-boot kernel hacking | > : cycle by transforming it to panic-edit-compile-netboot. | > | > I usually mount everything readonly when I try a new module just | > before loading it. It saves a tone of time. All I gotta fsck on the | > way back up is /var since it won't mount ro after syslog starts, which | > makes sense if you think about it. | > | > mount -ur / | > mount -ur /usr | > moutn -ur /junk | > | > is what I have in a script. After it succeeds, I do a mount -uwa | > which updates all the mounts. | > | > You can also netboot via a ROM on your ethernet card or via floppy, | > but I've not done that. The above works well enough for me. | | Also, if you have a PXE-aware network card or bios, netbooting | with a small ramdisk is very convenient for crash-and-burn testing. Since vmware doesn't do PXE, etherboot works nicely with it. This way you can neboot your vmware session and with Julians psuedo serial port thing you have a nice environment. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message