Re: booting from gpt/raid?

["Thomas Mueller" <mueller6725%twc.com@localhost>]

from MLH:

> Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > Does CDROM on your boot options include DVD?

> Yes. That's what I used to recover my temp boot disk and it works
> great. In a separate message I mentioned I was attempting to build
> a custom Live DVD but I can't figure out the new way of creating
> a bootable CD/DVD since floppy boot images are gone and the Live
> images build.sh builds are not isos.

> Anyone know it's done now?

You can look in $SRCDIR/distrib/amd64 , and there are various images you can make, including cdroms, and other architectures besides amd64 in distrib subdirectory.

root@amelia:/lin1/arbor # ls -l /media/zip1/usr/src/distrib/amd64
total 20
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Jun 29 06:50 CVS
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  567 May 23  2017 Makefile
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  512 May 14  2017 cdroms
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Oct  1  2017 installimage
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Jun  7  2014 instkernel
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Jun  7  2014 kmod
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Jun  7  2014 kmod-cgdroot
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  512 Jun  7  2014 liveimage
drwxr-xr-x  6 root  wheel  512 May 23  2017 ramdisks
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  512 Apr  3 10:20 uefi-installimage


> It is working now. It takes just under 12 minutes to start loading
> /netbsd off of the temp wd0a from the live-sd0 img dd'ed to a usb
> stick.
 
> While not very convenient, it's workable. Still would like to get
> the live image booting from a dvd. Would be immensely quicker.

Booting from USB is much faster than this on my computer.  Installing is what is slow.

Tom