cvs commit: src/release Makefile

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:00:58PM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> ru          2003/08/08 14:00:58 PDT
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     release              Makefile 
>   Log:
>   Added the new knob MINIROOT that, when set, causes the creation
>   of the bootable UFS image, miniroot.ufs, fully identical to the
>   contents of the "bootonly" CD-ROM.  The image is made available
>   on FTP as miniroot/miniroot.ufs.gz, for resemblance with NetBSD.
>   
>   This replaces the boot.flp image for sparc64, making the latter
>   as coming with NO_FLOPPIES.
>   
>   Reviewed by:    jhb
>   Tested by:      hrs
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.816     +9 -4      src/release/Makefile
> 
For those interested, here's the log of the serial console session
booting off this UFS image:

http://people.FreeBSD.org/~ru/ultra5+miniroot.3.log

Special thanks to Hiroki-san for providing me with the root access
on his sparc64 box, and for testing UFS boot images.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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