From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 27 10:45:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FA791065676 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:45:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flymac@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout019.mac.com (asmtpout019.mac.com [17.148.16.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D1E58FC21 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:45:09 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Received: from spool004.mac.com ([10.150.69.54]) by asmtp019.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KWW003FLJ6EXM30@asmtp019.mac.com> for freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:45:09 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1001270041 Received: from webmail061 ([10.13.128.61]) by spool004.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KWW005EPJ75NSC0@spool004.mac.com> for freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:45:07 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1001270041 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:45:05 +0100 From: Kevin Roettger To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Message-id: <30020756551208869699406666152307139673-Webmail@me.com> In-reply-to: <150037666413973298114868926391845557718-Webmail@me.com> References: <150037666413973298114868926391845557718-Webmail@me.com> Received: from [195.160.149.36] from webmail.me.com with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:45:05 +0100 Received: from [ 88.221.144.12] from webmail.me.com with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:45:05 +0100 X-Originating-IP: 195.160.149.36, 88.221.144.12 Subject: Re: Boot from Firewire (VIA Fire II) X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:45:09 -0000 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