Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 07:16:01 -0700 From: Brad Davis <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: Balaji Palaniswami <heisenbug.bala@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating bootable vm disk Message-ID: <20170130141601.GT70816@corpmail.liquidneon.com> In-Reply-To: <CAB0r=asgaEFbQUvx-tEnZDEDwvt8H%2B1eB0Sq3FFeJ3DCCL%2BbNQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAB0r=asgaEFbQUvx-tEnZDEDwvt8H%2B1eB0Sq3FFeJ3DCCL%2BbNQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:57:56PM -0800, Balaji Palaniswami wrote: > Hi All, > > I followed this https://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/arm/crossbuild. > buildworld, buildkernel, distribution, installkernel (TARGET=arm and arch= > armv6) went fine. I have compiled stuff at /home/username/nfsroot. Instead > of writing into sdcard or USB, i want to create bootable vm disk to boot in > bhyve. To create i tried mkimg > > sudo mkimg -s gpt -b nfsroot/boot/mbr -p > freebsd-boot:=nfsroot/boot/gptboot -p freebsd-ufs:=root-file-system.ufs -p > freebsd-swap::1G -o fbsd-2.img > > Here i created root filesystem using makefs which provided the > rootfilesystem.ufs. Then i verified those contents by mounting which looks > as it is in /nfsroot. But mkimg did not create boot partition properly. > Because when i tried to mount those partition it threw I/O error and when i > was trying to boot using beehive it says "kernel not found". > > Is there any script or list of commands to accomplish this task ? Hi Balaji, I'd recommend you use crochet: https://github.com/freebsd/crochet Regards, Brad Davis
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