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Unable to boot 6.9 bsd.rd on 6.8 vmd host
Mischa
2021-05-04 19:34:12 UTC
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Hi All,

I have a couple of machines running on 6.8 still, will upgrade soon. :)
For some reason when I am trying to boot a 6.9 bsd.rd nothing is happening.

It's only showing:
Connected to /dev/ttypq (speed 115200)

Nothing else appears.
Booting from a 6.8 bsd.rd works normally.

Equally booting from 6.9 bsd.rd on a 6.9 host works as expected as well.

Something I can do to make this work?

Mischa
Dave Voutila
2021-05-04 19:49:21 UTC
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Post by Mischa
Hi All,
I have a couple of machines running on 6.8 still, will upgrade soon. :)
For some reason when I am trying to boot a 6.9 bsd.rd nothing is happening.
6.9 bsd.rd's for amd64 are gzip'd. For 6.9, vmd was taught how to boot
compressed kernels/ramdisks.
Post by Mischa
Connected to /dev/ttypq (speed 115200)
Nothing else appears.
Booting from a 6.8 bsd.rd works normally.
Equally booting from 6.9 bsd.rd on a 6.9 host works as expected as well.
Something I can do to make this work?
gunzip the ramdisk and a 6.8 vmd instance should be able to boot it.

Once you have a guest updated and it's using seabios it will be booting
off the disk image and it shouldn't matter at that point.

-dv
Mischa
2021-05-04 20:06:16 UTC
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Post by Dave Voutila
Post by Mischa
Hi All,
I have a couple of machines running on 6.8 still, will upgrade soon. :)
For some reason when I am trying to boot a 6.9 bsd.rd nothing is happening.
6.9 bsd.rd's for amd64 are gzip'd. For 6.9, vmd was taught how to boot
compressed kernels/ramdisks.
Ah yes! I remember the discussion and thread about that, now.
Post by Dave Voutila
Post by Mischa
Connected to /dev/ttypq (speed 115200)
Nothing else appears.
Booting from a 6.8 bsd.rd works normally.
Equally booting from 6.9 bsd.rd on a 6.9 host works as expected as well.
Something I can do to make this work?
gunzip the ramdisk and a 6.8 vmd instance should be able to boot it.
Once you have a guest updated and it's using seabios it will be booting
off the disk image and it shouldn't matter at that point.
Will give that a try. Thanx Dave!

Mischa
Post by Dave Voutila
-dv
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