[flashboot] Flashboot still possible with 4.9

[flashbootlist at itmon.nl]

Hi Stuart & List,

I think I found the topic you mention and this is what I understood from it:

tar -xzf flashboot-SNAP-20101224.tar.gz
cd flashboot
export WORKDIR=sandbox
mkdir -p ${WORKDIR}
tar -xzf ../base49.tgz -C ${WORKDIR}/
tar -xzf ../etc49.tgz -C ${WORKDIR}/
tar -xzf ../comp49.tgz -C ${WORKDIR}/
tar -xzf ../man49.tgz -C ${WORKDIR}/
tar -xzf ../src.tar.gz -C ${WORKDIR}/usr/src/
tar -xzf ../sys.tar.gz -C ${WORKDIR}/usr/src/
mv ${WORKDIR}/dev ${WORKDIR}/dev-orig
mkdir ${WORKDIR}/dev
mount_mfs -o nosuid -s 32768 /dev/wd0b ${WORKDIR}/dev
cp -p ${WORKDIR}/dev-orig/MAKEDEV ${WORKDIR}/dev/MAKEDEV
cd ${WORKDIR}/dev/
./MAKEDEV all
cd -
cp -p mk-mini.conf ${WORKDIR}/mk-mini.conf
chroot ${WORKDIR} /bin/ksh
export MAKECONF=/mk-mini.conf
cd /sys/arch/i386/conf
config RAMDISK
cd ../compile/RAMDISK
make clean ; make depend ; make
cd /usr/src
make obj
cd /usr/src/etc
env DESTDIR=/ sudo make distrib-dirs
cd /usr/src
make SUDO=sudo build


I have some doubts if I need to do the "config RAMDISK" and the "make clean 
; make depend ; make" since that builds a 'regular' openbsd kernel. But I 
don't think it hurts either.

Anyway; the build finished without problems and now I'm a bit lost about 
what I should do the topic talks about changin flash-dist to 'workdir' in 
build-bindist.sh but dat file doesn't have a reference to flash-dist.

build-kernel.sh, for example, does but 4.9 doesn't like the GENERIC-RD 
kernel. Copying the RAMDISK kernel from regular BSD; starts building but 
quits with a missing library "des".

It does create a bsd (just not the bsd.gz) but that kernel doesn't boot 
completely and than reboots.

I assume I have to make my own "GENERIC-RD" but where do I start?


Note: I haven't tried the script yet that was posted earlier today. I will 
try that tomorrow. But from first glance it doesn't look a lot different 
from what I did manually.

Mark





Stuart Henderson writes:

> It is possible but you need to do things a different way.
> Use a chroot jail rather than DESTDIR which no longer works.
> See the list archives for more info
> 
> 
> On 2011/05/03 11:23, flashbootlist at itmon.nl wrote:
>> Dear List,
>> 
>> My home firewall runs on an Alix system with a flashboot OpenBSD 4.6.
>> I haven't upgraded since and I thought now with the release of 4.9 it
>> made sence to build a new flashboot.
>> 
>> I installed a virtualbox with 4.9; downloaded the latest flashboot
>> scripts (2010-12-24) and executed build-release as stated in the
>> README. This has worked for me with 4.6 without problems. But now the
>> building seams to fail on "libstdc++-v3"
>> 
>> Has anyone succesfully build a 4.9 FlashBoot image? Is this still possible?
>> 
>> Mark