make it more relevant to modern systems: for example users will be
familiar with the MBR but possibly less so with MS-DOS.
After installation has finished don't return to the main menu but exit.
on release CDs and so will normally fail.
installCommit() returns a DITEM_ value, not a Boolean.
distExtractAll() returns a Boolean, not a DITEM_ value.
Reported by: kensmith
MFC after: 3 days
a lib32 distribution, and that the GENERIC kernel is named GENERIC64.
More modifications will be required later for installations from ftp due
to the shared platform name with 32-bit powerpc, but this is enough for
snapshot CDs to work.
Reviewed by: brucec
can't check to see if sysinstall is running as init just by checking if the
PID is 0. Introduce a new option that sets the RunningAsInit flag, and update
the code to check RunningAsInit intstead of getpid().
PR: bin/38854
Submitted by: Peter Sedeffow <peter at trumanbrewery.com>
Approved by: rrs (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
and broken for a number of years. freebsd-update now provides a reasonable
way to handle upgrades, so keeping this functionality in sysinstall only
serves to mislead users.
Approved by: cperciva (mentor)
extract distributions once. If a distribution fails to fetch/extract
and the user doesn't want to retry, abort the installation.
Reviewed by: randi
Approved by: rrs (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
a getty on the serial port so that it's possible to login when the system is
rebooted.
PR: bin/23098
Submitted by: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko at whistle.com>
Reviewed by: randi
Approved by: rrs (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
offer to install an SMP kernel. The way this worked was: on supported
platforms, code to read ACPI tables and BIOS MP tables was compiled into
sysinstall, and if an SMP kernel config was present in the source tree when
sysinstall was built, code that called it was also compiled. Since we
haven't had SMP kernel configs in years, the latter was never compiled and
the former never ran.
This only removes dead and unreachable code; it does *not* remove the NCpus
variable, nor the code that sets it to 1, nor the code that asks the user to
select a kernel from a list.
Discussed with: re@, randi@ and others
While doing so, improve style and reword some comments.
This should not result in any functional changes, but the fixit_livefs_common
function will be used by future code.
Submitted by: randi
Approved by: re (kensmith)
tape have been broken for quite a while, and I'll be removing the rest
of sysinstall's knowledge of tapes shortly. I'm doing this piece now
because I want to switch from gnu's cpio to bsdcpio being integrated
into the installation environment and bsdcpio doesn't seem to handle
block sizes at all.
default distribution (user) will be installed, however, no kernel
will be installed. Fix this by installing a sensible default kernel,
SMP/GENERIC, depending on WITH_SMP and number of CPUS found.
Reviewed by: jhb
see which release you are installing (really which FreeBSD version the
installer is running, but that shouldn't matter in all normal cases).
PR: bin/100309
Submitted by: Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com> (original version)
Idea from: FreeBSD ideas page
MFC after: 1 week
at runtime and to support distributing additional kernels:
o remove kernel from the base tarball
o add new kernel tarballs
o build + package both SMP and GENERIC kernels when an <arch>/conf/SMP
config file is present
o add sysinstall support for multiple kernels
o update sysinstall to probe for the number of cpus on a system
and auto-select smp/up kernel accordingly
o add a post-kernels install hook to fixup /boot/kernel
o add -ldevinfo to boot crunch for sysinstall's cpu probing logic
Notes:
1. On HEAD this code is not currently used because GENERIC kernels
include SMP. This work is mainly intended for RELENG_6 where the
GENERIC kernel is UP. If HEAD changes to match then just enable
WITH_SMP in sysinstall/Makefile.
2. The cpu probing support is done with acpi and MPTable; this means
some systems will require work for auto-detection to work.
3. The handling of /boot/kernel may need to be revisited; for now
we rename one kernel at the last moment (SMP if installed, otherwise
GENERIC). There are other, possibly better, approaches.
Lots of help from ru, emaste, scottl, and jhb.
with EBUSY and a cdrom is not mounted at /cdrom, sysinstall fails to
treat it as an error and thinks that the disk mounted ok. However, it
doesn't find a cdrom.inf file so it complains. Later when it tries to
unmount the disk due to a mediaClose() umount(2) returns an error, and it
never clears its internal mounted flag. The fix here is to properly
handle EBUSY as an error if there isn't a CD already mounted at /cdrom.
- Add a new CDROMInitQuiet variable that can be used to shut up the dialog
box about the mount(2) system call failing when trying to mount a CD-ROM.
This is used by the feature described below.
- When using a fixit CD, first try to see if we can mount the disc in the
drive now and use it as a fixit CD. If not, then prompt the user to
insert the disc and try again. If we do succeed on the first "silent"
probe then we don't ask the user to eject the disk after leaving fixit
mode.
- Add a simple file existence test to make sure that the disc that we mount
really is a livefs disc.
- Explicitly switch back to ttyv0 when using the standard console after
the fixit shell dies. Previously this behavior worked accidentally
because all the fixit modes popped up a dialog box which contained a
hidden switch to ttyv0.
MFC after: 1 day
concensus seems to be that is best left for doing post-install.
Discussed on: freebsd-current@
Tested with: make release
Approved by: re@
MFC after: 3 days
global variables. On ia64, save a pointer to the efi chunk as well.
o At the same time, change checkLabels() to define these globals instead
of having the caller of checkLabels() pass addresses to variables for
these. Change the two callers correspondingly.
o Spent a bit more time adjusting try_auto_label() to prepate for having
the EFI partition created on ia64.
o Remove efi_mountpoint(). The EFI chunk is now available without having
to iterate over the disks and chunks to find it every time we need it.
o On ia64, now that the root chunk is globally available, set the
vfs.root.mountfrom tunable in loader.conf. This avoids that one cannot
boot into FreeBSD after an install. The kernel cannot find the root
device without a little help...
of releases. The -DNOCRYPT build option still exists for anyone who
really wants to build non-cryptographic binaries, but the "crypto"
release distribution is now part of "base", and anyone installing from a
release will get cryptographic binaries.
Approved by: re (scottl), markm
Discussed on: freebsd-current, in late April 2004
o Remove the code that creates the boot directory on the EFI file
system after it has been mounted, as well as remove the code
that creates the symlink from /boot -> /efi/boot (*). As a result,
/boot will be extracted onto the root file system.
o Add a function efi_mountpoint() that returns the mount point of
the EFI file system or NULL if no EFI partition is created. This
function is used to both check whether there's an EFI file system
and to return what its mount point is.
o When there's no EFI file system, ask the user if this is what he
or she wants. Since we extract /boot onto the root file system,
we do not actually need an EFI file system for the installation to
work. Whether one wants to install without an EFI partition is
of course an entirely different question. We allow it...
o When we're done installing and need to fix up the various bits
and pieces, check if there's an EFI partition and if yes, move
/boot to /efi/boot and create a symlink /boot -> /efi/boot (*).
This is a much more reliable way to get /boot onto the EFI
partition than creating the symlink up front and hope its being
respected. It so happened that we never had the boot directory
end up on the EFI partition. We make the symlink relative.
(*) /efi is a place holder for the actual EFI mount point of course.
that actually need it. This makes it easier for a platform porter to
find the files that may need tweaking to support whatever MD specific
partitioning is needed. It also helps to prevent that the libdisk API
gets exposed and/or used where it's not needed.
- Don't look for partitions inside a FreeBSD chunk on ia64 when mounting
the filesystems just before the chroot and install.
- Write entries out to /etc/fstab for filesystems that aren't inside a
FreeBSD chunk, but are a top-level chunk under the disk.
/libexec to /mnt2/libexec, and execute /mnt2/rescue/ldconfig to add
the /mnt2/lib and /mnt2/usr/lib library directories. Thanks to John Baldwin
for working to track this down.
Submitted by: jhb
selection is used to drive two configuration parameters:
(1) Default enable/disable for sshd
(2) Default enable/disable for securelevels
Replace this with an explicit choice to enable/disable sshd. A
follow-up commit will add a configuration option to the Security
post-install configuration menu to set the securelevel in rc.conf
explicitly. This should reduce the level of foot-shooting associated
with accidental enabling of securelevels, make the nature and
implications of the securelevel configuration options more explicit,
as well as make the choice to enable/disable sshd more explicit.
Approved by: re (scottl)
