Re: installation problems (was: mount bsd partition)
Thank you for information. My story continues...
I was start by my firts step after the reading of the ansfer.
I reinstalled of the FreeBSD. Now, I have only one large slice
and a swap on my BSD partition. The file system is UFS1 (the details
about UFS1 and UFS2 are described in instalation manual of FreeBSD but
I didn't understant it during first reading). Unfortunatelly, the recent
linux kernels mounts the partition on read-only mode correctly but its
read-write mode fails (the most simple command touch /bsd/tmp/a
issues a kernel oops). Therefore, the simple solution by run crosshurd
from linux is not possible...
So I started create the dbootstrap base system. It isn't staightforward
too. The use of recent sid (it is usable after cracking problems today
yet) with crosshurd included is not simply possible. The crosshurd
depends on dpkg-dev package and dpkg-dev depends on perl5 which is not a
part of debian (it's probably a mistake). The rebuild of dpkg-dev
solves this problem (I don't know if this bug is reported, the system is
down at now).
So I transfered the tarball to FreeBSD partition and I tried to run
chroot environment. It was without any success. The kldstat command
printed me that linux.ko is loaded but any command like ls, date gives
the kernel core. I don't understand why. The crosshurd doesn't work, of
course.
I interrupted any additional experiments while the debian infrastructure
will up and it will be possible to use of it.
I take notice of debian/knetbsd archive with some iso images. Can I use
it on instalation of running system without any additional tools? I mean
by example, the Gentoo project provides instalation CDs. The CD is live
so it's possible to boot from it, create a new instalation from chroot
environment and set up complete box (in principle every instalation must
do it). Is there somethink like it for a debian/*bsd?
thank you for any suggestion
FH
On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 19:28, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:43:11PM +0100, Filip Hroch wrote:
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'm newbie in BSD and trying to mount of FreeBSD partition (by FreeBSD
> > 5.1 instaler, slice editor) under unstable debian/linux and
> > 2.6.0-test[5,9,11] kernel. The slices are detected as:
> >
> > hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
> > hda1: <bsd: hda5 hda6 hda7 >
> >
> > and this mount command fails:
> >
> > mount -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=44bsd /dev/hda5 /mnt
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda5,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> >
> > with record in dmesg:
> > ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> >
> > It seems to be problem of different filesystem format. This is
> > important for me, I need it to transfer data between debian/linux and
> > debian/freebsd and a possible opposite way is closed. I'm using xfs
> > filesystem for my home directory.
>
> You're probably right. I think you have a UFS2 filesystem, which Linux
> won't understand. IIRC, 5.1 uses UFS2 by default now. There's an option
> to toggle that in the slice editor when you install FreeBSD 5. I think
> it was default UFS1 in 5.0, and changed in 5.1.
>
> > Second question. I've a working installation of FreeBSD 5.1. How do I
> > install the Debian/FreeBSD? The install manuall reccomends use of
> > crosshurd package (it's useless for me, I cannot mount any BSD
> > partition) or a second way with switch script, it doesn't work, it
> > needs the non-root partition unmounted but it use the utilities from
> > the /usr/*bin/ directory.
>
> I think Robert wrote the switch script under the assumption that /usr
> wasn't a separate partition.
>
> One approach you could try, and it might work:
>
> 1. Create a Debian chroot under FreeBSD. Best way is to run debootstrap
> on a Debian box, and tar that up. Add the cross-hurd package to it.
> 2. Load the linux emulation module. (kldload linux)
> 3. Unpack the Debian/linux tarball, and chroot into it. You'll need to
> use a command that looks kind of like chroot /debian /bin/bash.
> 4. Run the cross-hurd.
> 5. The fun part: look at the switch script, and figure out how to
> manually swap you new freebsd-i386 chroot with your root directory.
>
> Alternatively, you can just reinstall FreeBSD, and this time use UFS1 so
> you can mount the filesystem from Linux. You might also want to make one
> large partition, rather than create a /usr, since the primitive scripts
> we have don't really understand that. This is probably a bit less
> complicated than what I describe above. It is less educational,
> however... ;-)
>
> > The debian/linux is my production system so I can experiment with this
> > only very carefully, but the debian/FreeBSD is experimental for my and
> > I can do with this everythink.
>
> I don't really recommend dual-booting a production system with something
> as experimental as freebsd-i386. But that's up to you.
>
> ---Nathan
>
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