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ramdisk-zfsroot: Remove the module loading magic 

It's been determined that it's too magical and it's either the job
of the bootloader or you compile it into the kernel yourself.

This entry works in /boot.cfg:

menu=Boot ZFS Root:load solaris;load zfs;fs /ramdisk-zfsroot.fs;boot
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roy 2020-02-25 20:05:10 +00:00
parent 5d361e7c10
commit 7d5fdd89d0
1 changed files with 7 additions and 24 deletions
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@ -1,40 +1,24 @@
#/bin/sh
#
# $NetBSD: zfsroot.rc,v 1.3 2020/02/23 10:51:12 roy Exp $
# $NetBSD: zfsroot.rc,v 1.4 2020/02/25 20:05:10 roy Exp $
echo "Starting root on ZFS boot strapper"
# Abort on any error
set -e
# Assumption - boot.cfg loads this ramdisk.
# Assumption - The needed kernel modules: solaris and zfs; are either on this
# ramdisk OR loaded by boot.cfg.
# Finding the correct dev node to mount to get them is too magic.
# NetBSD cannot build and distribute a kernel with ZFS builtin.
# Assumption - the root pool is set to legacy mount.
# Configurable - define the ZFS root pool and ROOT.
# XXX Can these be set in boot.cfg?
# Assumption - the root pool is set to legacy mount.
rpool=rpool
rroot=ROOT
# Assumption - the boot device is named boot.
# Could use /dev/dk0, /dev/wd0a, etc instead.
# XXX Can be exposed by sysctl kern.boot_device?
bootdev="NAME=boot"
# Setup some stuff incase things go south and we drop to the shell
export HOME=/
export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
umask 022
# Avoid having the solaris and zfs modules in ramdisk directly.
# Means we don't need to update the ramdisk with the kernel modules
# or load them from boot.cfg so it's less pain for the user.
#bootdev="$(/sbin/sysctl -n kern.boot_device)"
modpath="$(/sbin/sysctl -n kern.module.path)"
echo "Loading needed kernel modules from $bootdev:$modpath"
/sbin/mount -o ro "$bootdev" /mnt
for m in solaris zfs; do
/sbin/modload "/mnt/$modpath/$m/$m.kmod"
done
/sbin/umount /mnt
# FIXME XXX Sometimes zpool import gets SIGBUS
# Ensure that we are in a writable directory to try and capture a coredump
# Not that we actually get a coredump ....
@ -46,5 +30,4 @@ echo "Importing $rpool"
echo "Mounting $rpool/$rroot to /altroot"
/sbin/mount -t zfs "$rpool/$rroot" /altroot;
echo "Pivoting to /altroot, welcome to root on ZFS"
/sbin/sysctl -w init.root=/altroot