From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 18 04:46:19 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 32E701065670 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:46:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sweetnavelorange@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f208.google.com (mail-ew0-f208.google.com [209.85.219.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF0E8FC13 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:46:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so148746ewy.36 for ; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:46:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=KLsmc+bjkixKHlHDUKhBZfSJLvfuxwX0mIxfy2Rpw5A=; b=G4bLiazO5jIlT9c+hFivjJq5VLBpZ/RhkgJTgcWdfYsyIAi35zAaslPUMNKMuy7x/u 9ixVesUC/EykNMsSx1Plgv9xGPH19zU21XxTBuy2X/XjKDwbnnSRHHM7jOC8ELbPZo9Y Uojz50wR/Y1LOCXGuiN/+S/i7u7BCUMyasQaU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=iwQZXd8+Iu6RR6/8KPsRjmlFJNJveLlSK+0pcCl8JF0hHScgq7dOVi6wKIRqfmflYe Y4+Gr+RB2gAvc4KJSW+wLyyCgL0q3XnmxK+2qmPJiFNW1pWHNoqbKOkB3xIU+JxoJtL0 I1vWpY5dvJ/fV3GrOpO6i7LoyZy1EQNhI1NkI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.2.5 with SMTP id 5mr420935wee.216.1253249177799; Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:46:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:46:17 +1200 Message-ID: From: James Butler To: maksverver@geocities.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Can't boot Marvel Sheevaplug from USB 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: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:46:19 -0000 Maks Verver wrote: > James Butler wrote: > > Sounds similar to: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D138798 > > Apparently Scott Long is working on a fix. > > Interesting! Is there any way I can help debug/solve this? Test the fix when it arrives? Scott seems to have some idea what the problem is, and a lot of people have been bitten by it, so I'm hoping for a fix soon(TM). > As for running FreeBSD on the SheevaPlug: I think I will stick with > Ubuntu for now, as I haven't been able to get FreeBSD to recognize the > NAND storage nor the SDIO controller, and FreeBSD doesn't seem to have a > =C2=A0wear-leveling filesystem (or GEOM layer) anyway. Well, it's debatable how necessary a special filesystem is for flash media, although recognising the hardware would be nice I guess :-) Do mmc(4)/sdhci(4) not support the controller? I've seen it suggested that UFS+softupdates is about as good as a conventional filesystem gets for flash media, because it's good at minimising transient writes. -James Butler (please CC me, I'm off-list)