On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Colin Percival <cperc...@tarsnap.com> wrote:
> On 01/03/16 11:18, Warner Losh wrote: > > Log: > > Use /bin/rm to remove /firstboot*. Otherwise rm -i alias is picked > > up and can cause issues on boot with the prompts. > > Huh, I never realized that could be a problem. It can, but it was a false positive here. /bin/sh always sources them, so if you'd added an alias, it would be hit here. > > > Fix the read-only > > root case with horrible kludge of mounting rw removing the files, then > > mounting ro. > > The solution I intended when I introduced this (and used elsewhere) was to > set $firstboot_sentinel in /etc(/defaults)?/rc.conf. This case is > precisely > why it's a shell variable, in fact. Except that's not exactly useful. NanoBSD boots with no filesystems writable that are permanent. So I could set it to /var/firstboot or something like that, and the error would go away. However, that wouldn't solve the problem because /var is repopulated from base seed files every boot with NanoBSD so we'd get firstboot behavior on every single boot. Or, we could remount / rw and remove the file and remount it ro when a read-only root was requested. I wondered to myself why we didn't use the same mechanism as nextboot for this feature. Do you know? Warner _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
