9720 kernel: support for booting with cpio-based boot_archive
Review Request #1156 — Created Aug. 9, 2018 and submitted — Latest diff uploaded
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tsoome | |
illumos-gate | |
9720 | |
1189 | |
d5eaf91... | |
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In addition to booting with ufs and hsfs boot archives, this commit adds support for cpio boot archives. The archive itself can be compressed (since loader decompresses the image before handing it to the kernel), but the individual files must *not* be compressed. Size-wise, the cpio archives tend to be marginally smaller than the hsfs archives with identical files.
root@uefi-oi:/usr/bin# bootadm update-archive -fv forced update of archive requested cannot find: /etc/cluster/nodeid: No such file or directory cannot find: /etc/devices/mdi_ib_cache: No such file or directory cannot find: /etc/devices/retire_store: No such file or directory mkisofs not found, creating cpio archive updating /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive updating /platform/i86pc/boot_archive 45816 blocks 216968 blocks root@uefi-oi:/usr/bin# reboot Connection to uefi-oi.local closed by remote host. Connection to uefi-oi.local closed. Nazgul:~ tsoome$ ssh uefi-oi.local Warning: No xauth data; using fake authentication data for X11 forwarding. The Illumos Project SunOS 5.11 illumos-gate August 2018 tsoome@uefi-oi:~$ tsoome@uefi-oi:~$ cd /tmp tsoome@uefi-oi:/tmp$ cp /platform/i86pc/amd64/boot_archive boot_archive.gz tsoome@uefi-oi:/tmp$ gunzip boot_archive.gz filetsoome@uefi-oi:/tmp$ file boot_archive boot_archive: ASCII cpio archive - CHR (-c) header tsoome@uefi-oi:/tmp$