Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:45:05 +0100 From: Kevin Roettger <flymac@mac.com> To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot from Firewire (VIA Fire II) Message-ID: <30020756551208869699406666152307139673-Webmail@me.com> In-Reply-To: <150037666413973298114868926391845557718-Webmail@me.com> References: <150037666413973298114868926391845557718-Webmail@me.com>
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Hi, Follow-up of my little journey: No luck with FLOSS BIOS for my mainboard. Some exist for similar mainboard but not mine (at least I could not find any). I've tried pretty much everything to boot from that USB stick but since the BIOS (even a fresh update a few days ago) does not support USB HDD but only USB FDD, no way to boot from it that I know of. Last resort, I've tried netbooting via PXE, the idea being to use it as a way to get into the loader, load whatever Firewire modules and then select that drive to boot from. Ideally I can shutdown the NFS access afterwards to run only from that Firewire drive. So, I've managed to boot and get into the loader, which is a good start. But of course "lsdev" will not show my Firewire drive no matter what modules I load: I've tried "load firewire", "load sbp" and so on... Just a note, if I continue booting from NFS, everything works fine and the drive is recognized as sbp device without any intervention, so there is definitly support for it in the kernel and/or modules found on the NFS boot kernel (I used the 8.0-REL Bootonly image to boot from). Any ideas? Is it even possible to do what I'd like to do? Kevin
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