On 04/25/14 14:52, Glen Barber wrote:
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:46:46PM -0700, Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
I appreciate the caution. Thanks for the clarification! I'm planning to get
EFI support into the installer this weekend.
Speaking of the installer...
How difficult would it be to be able to select a kernel for installation
if more than one kernel.${foo}.txz is provided on the install medium?
The use case I have in mind is where kernel.VT.txz is extracted to
/boot/kernel.VT (which I believe the loader menu already supports
multi-kernel), an alternate kernel can be chosen for booting and then
can subsequently be chosen as the installed kernel during the extract
phase.
This would actually cut down quite a bit on snapshot build times, since
right now I have to do a separate build for each kernel.
Thoughts?
Glen
Not that hard. If you want to just add extra optional kernels, the
installer doesn't even need any patches -- you just have to add it to
the make release logic (and MANIFEST) as an extra tarball. Installing it
to /boot/kernel would require removing the logic in
bsdinstall/scripts/auto that removes "kernel" from the menu as a
nonoptional package.
-Nathan
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