Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:41:34 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <oppermann@monzoon.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: How to make bootable disk boot images with vn device? Message-ID: <3B82B96E.F22EB480@monzoon.net>
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Hello, I've run into a (hopefully small) roadblock here. What I want to do is to make a comlete bootable 'disk' image for a IDE flash disk. This disk image should be simply dd-able to the target flash and include boot blocks and partition table etc. So far I did a flash image by putting a IDE flash onto the IDE bus a second disk, fdisk'd and label'd it, put the kernel and all the binaries onto it. Then "dd if=/dev/ad1 of=/images/flash-image.dd" to get a image I can dd back to the next flash. Now I'd like to make the generation of the master dd image a little bit easier and avoid the need of having a flash in the build machine. This is how I came via the PXE netboot stuff to the vn device and vnconfig. For some reason I'm missing how I can create a full disk image with this. Appearently the fdisk step is missing and I never get such a image dd' to a flash to boot. So here I'm lost. Any help appreciated. # dd if=/dev/zero of=mfsroot bs=1k count=25000 # vnconfig -e -s labels vn0 mfsroot # disklabel -r -w vn0 auto # newfs /dev/vn0c # mount and cp blabla TIA -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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