Re: Unable to boot 6.9 bsd.rd on 6.8 vmd host

> On 4 May 2021, at 21:50, Dave Voutila <dave@sisu.io> wrote:
>
> Mischa writes:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a couple of machines running on 6.8 still, will upgrade soon. :)
>> For some reason when I am trying to boot a 6.9 bsd.rd nothing is happening.
>
> 6.9 bsd.rd's for amd64 are gzip'd. For 6.9, vmd was taught how to boot
> compressed kernels/ramdisks.

Ah yes! I remember the discussion and thread about that, now.

>> It's only showing:
>> Connected to /dev/ttypq (speed 115200)
>>
>> Nothing else appears.
>> Booting from a 6.8 bsd.rd works normally.
>>
>> Equally booting from 6.9 bsd.rd on a 6.9 host works as expected as well.
>>
>> Something I can do to make this work?
>
> gunzip the ramdisk and a 6.8 vmd instance should be able to boot it.
>
> Once you have a guest updated and it's using seabios it will be booting
> off the disk image and it shouldn't matter at that point.

Will give that a try. Thanx Dave!

Mischa

>
> -dv