Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:34:49 +0200 From: Remy Nonnenmacher <remy.nonnenmacher@activnetworks.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Petr Holub <hopet@ics.muni.cz>, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: panic on boot Message-ID: <470CD4F9.1060705@activnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <20071010112505.GA28273@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <031f01c809ef$c829de80$5317fb93@KLOBOUCEK> <86641fgrs6.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20071010112505.GA28273@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 12:58:33PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >> "Petr Holub" <hopet@ics.muni.cz> writes: >>> Despite you couldn't guarantee it, it really helped and it boots now. >>> I've used the binary loader available from ~kib site and just replaced >>> it on the original ISO: mdcondifig -> mount -> >>> tar cf - | (cd elswhere && tar xvpf -) -> replace the loader -> mkisomages.sh >> You realize that you can simply 'tar xf' an ISO image, instead of >> jumping through hoops with mdconfig? > > Most FreeBSD users I know of (junior and senior) do not know about > libarchive(3), nor what's linked to it (tar). Heck, even *I* didn't > know it had ISO9660 and ZIP support until I read the manpage; I thought > it was limited to tar, pax, and cpio archives. > Holly god (or whatever serves). 25 years in CS, started with punch cards and learning every day. Great day. Thanks DES. RN. IaM
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