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From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com>
Cc: grub-devel <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Grub kfreebsd with pxe & nfs
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:30:13 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141101173013.0b9a3405@opensuse.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141026211938.4a709655@rsbsd.rsb>

В Sun, 26 Oct 2014 21:19:38 +0200
Beeblebrox <zaphod@berentweb.com> пишет:

> 
> > > * First is, code snippet to get mount_root to use NFS V3 instead of
> > > V2. grub.cfg code should be as below, but does not work
> 
> > This should be kFreeBSD.... 
> Still does not work with 
> {set kFreeBSD.boot.nfsroot.options="nfsv3"}
> mount_root this time does not hang, but resulting mounted root is still V2
> 
> * grub.cfg does not accept kFreeBSD for all parameters, and needs mixed syntax. Example:
> menuentry 'FreeBSD 11_amd64' {
>    kfreebsd kernel/kernel
> # NOT kFreeBSD kernel/kernel

kfreebsd is not parameter, it is command. kFreeBSD. is variable name
prefix.

>    set FreeBSD.acpi_load=YES
>    kfreebsd_loadenv device.hints
> # NOT kFreeBSD_loadenv device.hints
>    kfreebsd_module kernel/if_sis.ko
> # NOT kFreeBSD_module kernel/if_sis.ko
> 
> * I disabled these 3 params:
>    # set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom="nfs:192.168.2.1:/data/amd64"
>    # set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom.options="ro"
>    # set kFreeBSD.boot.nfsroot.options="nfsv3"
> And saw that FreeBSD boots normally through grub. This means that the {set kFreeBSD.*} settings are very likely being ignored as boot settings.

It is possible to verify that those variables are actually passed from
grub to kernel?   

> The mount_root is successful because FreeBSD executes what is passed
 from dhcp.
> 
> Regards.



      reply	other threads:[~2014-11-01 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-26 18:03 Grub kfreebsd with pxe & nfs Beeblebrox
2014-10-26 18:24 ` Andrei Borzenkov
2014-10-26 19:19   ` Beeblebrox
2014-11-01 14:30     ` Andrei Borzenkov [this message]

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