the root filesystem read-write. This causes problems booting
the memstick installation medium from write-protected USB flash
drives.
Submitted by: A.J. Kehoe IV [1], Oliver Jones [2]
PR: 187161 [1], 205886 [2]
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Restore make-memstick.sh back to its original state to
unbreak booting for machines that do not support GPT.
I have in-progress work to keep the MBR layout and add
the EFI partition, but it is not yet ready, and does
need at least one full release build to be certain it
does not break.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
- Indent 1 full tab where needed
- Use $() for shell exec
- Insert a space between '$(( ))' parens
MFC After: 1 week
X-MFC-With: r264907
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
dedicated' partition scheme, reported to cause the memstick.img
to fail to boot.
Similar to how make-memstick.sh worked on stable/8, use makefs(8)
to create the actual filesystem. Then calculate the size of the
resulting image file, create the GPT partition scheme, then dd(1)
the filesystem created with makefs(8) to the freebsd-ufs GPT
partition.
This was tested on a known-working machine[1] for regression, and
a known-not-working machine[2] to ensure the boot issue has been
resolved.
Testers: myself [1], db [2]
MFC After: 1 week
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
makes booting more reliable (and working at all on USB sticks). While here,
move responsibility for setting up fstab into the various platform mk-*.sh
scripts.
Suggested by: many
i386 and amd64. This involved moving the memstick generation script to
the arch directories from scripts/, in analogy to mkisoimages.sh. This
script was never called from /usr/src/release/Makefile, so that hasn't
been updated.
