From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 16:18:02 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF19516A421 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:18:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fredbsdavidson@yahoo.com) Received: from n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com (n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.237.93]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C57B13C4BD for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 16:18:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fredbsdavidson@yahoo.com) Received: from [68.142.237.87] by n8.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jun 2007 16:18:01 -0000 Received: from [66.196.101.132] by t3.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jun 2007 16:18:01 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by rrr3.mail.re1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jun 2007 16:18:01 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 806802.25977.bm@rrr3.mail.re1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 35418 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Jun 2007 16:16:35 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=0c1g0Hok+/Q+rWXrhT5r5jPd/CyqMsxJ5x2ldUjvsuVI/qEbRLtfac4CKG6apbr1D4K/qE4QD6zoYNrTxAvLIz/lweozJ3G/XTY/eQkU+wN4kC9GPxPKfxtGjH3hZVrsIBdD2VRhn+5hgCo4c5UBAg5/2jxKqsc+0ekzW/2RcsQ=; X-YMail-OSG: kBxnNjcVM1my4GgwXEdaCrdBqjmXYP19L48dsoDfzWRbK6CzqDeF18Rf_IKArTnyzN.5l365rABFOicamKsGOW2nNw-- Received: from [85.214.63.253] by web57407.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:16:35 PDT Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:16:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Davidson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <744501.34996.qm@web57407.mail.re1.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:57:15 +0000 Subject: Loader can't read USB drive @ boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 16:18:02 -0000 Well I was having this problem with GRUB which someone helped me with. Now Grub will boot my USB key and load loader. The problem? loader hangs, and eventually says it can't find the kernel. when I lsdev it always gives the right description of my hard disk partitions on the hard drive, but prints nothing for the USB disk. So... Is this a problem of FreeBSD not being able to read from the USB stick this early? Is this a problem of the BIOS being fishy with FreeBSD and refusing to give up the details of the USB stick? Is this (like a read in another post) just a problem of the specific USB stick I'm using, and that there's something different about different sticks? Do these little sticks really have firmware? You ponder that, I'm gonna go drop some cash on a new USB stick, hope that's it. -Fred ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html