Bowlfish assumes that after it boots, the single hard disc in a system will be wd0a. Not true on a Soekris net6501 when using a USB volume. It’s sd0a. You need to update /etc/fstab to mount / from sd0a instead of wd0a. You can do that with a site.tgz file, or just mount and edit the disc before you boot. Or mount -o rw,noatime /dev/sd0a /mnt on the booted system, make the change to /etc/fstab, and then mount -o rw /dev/sd0a. (more…)
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Fix for Bowlfish 2.1 on a Soekris net6501
Sunday, August 19th, 2012Quirk installing Bowlfish 2.1 for OpenBSD 4.9.
Sunday, August 19th, 2012I use a tool called Bowlfish to build OpenBSD images which run with the drives mounted read-only. This lets me use cheap Compact Flash or USB drives in a Soekris single board computer instead of a real disc or a more expensive SSD.
Bowlfish has been a lifesaver and has worked perfectly for years. The current version, however, didn’t. I was shocked. Then I fixed it! (more…)