[flashboot] Flashboot still possible with 4.9

[James Records]

Hey mark:

Skipjack and libdes were retired from the system. CAST-128 implementation
was also removed from libc.

are you copying the kernel conf from a 4.9 obsd system?

J

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 1:19 PM, <flashbootlist at itmon.nl> wrote:

>
> 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
>>>
>>
>
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