From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 7 02:39:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97247106564A for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:39:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackoroses@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f164.google.com (mail-bw0-f164.google.com [209.85.218.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82308FC12 for ; Sat, 7 Mar 2009 02:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackoroses@gmail.com) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so554025bwz.43 for ; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:39:24 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=mr/mh53OYPqu6g+TrHgt5NJYs6DBC0h7iO/PiuSNYcg=; b=ew932RvZTtqPCZAS7dFTfabd/UGKJOwdRM4qZHlGvEqTrl69Vr9TiZfTcQ3mgdhf0a IG2mQDH6yKp8U7E0ACgJ0AddW5pDZTzRbt5sXTmWNdBRwPT1UYjsuFB86PryQWkU07qB pvSj0hrCTW3vWo5VG914rEYJ9trpjjis6am98= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=e4Kq4Z67hs3p92UlUqVOSkg8QrL4/D4YftbG0aniMz6E5kMgkxh8qFPJs5OcvTuQKo gvAoQ0BzzVzj+zchnvaKwC8U7qUfzQFfxQ77iZf7VCiOEewFyHMHc/Q0ODQWcF9jiyov Cul9R1hgcRQQygqhzXtEjdV1EgPZqTNKRPq1E= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.244.10 with SMTP id w10mr1364957mur.71.1236392056075; Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:14:16 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <27998819.871236382003017.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> References: <49B1AC25.3000700@onetel.com> <27998819.871236382003017.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 21:14:16 -0500 Message-ID: <1d001f850903061814k2577f3ccs94be86bcc87b9efd@mail.gmail.com> From: Mike L To: Peter Steele Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One USB drive boots, the other doesn't... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jacko@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 02:39:26 -0000 from what I understand it's widely known there is not a standard for implementing USB bios boot. I can take a flash drive make it bootable with grub4dos and my board will not see it. Take that same drive implement normal grub or syslinux and my board will now boot that flash drive. Take that bootable flash drive put it in another board and that board won't boot it unless you change the boot option to USB floppy... It could just be the board doesn't like the new drive you are using now. I could be wrong on all this but that is how I understand it as of now.. You might be able to make a work around by booting to a dos environment and load USB drivers. That is unfamiliar territory to me and probably not a work around you wish to use. reply to list please reply to is a spam catch. On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Peter Steele wrote: > >Shot in the dark but are they by any chance U3 devices? > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3 > > There is no indication of that. They mount fine and can be formatted as UFS > and have files copied to them. They are just basic 4GB USB flash drives, on > sale at our local Frys. HP brand (but I don't know if someone else is the > OEM)... > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >