From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 22 18:17:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2969A16A47E for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:17:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: from smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 848F043D64 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:17:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jin@george.lbl.gov) Received: (qmail 32861 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2006 18:16:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.2.9?) (jinmtb@sbcglobal.net@68.127.180.134 with plain) by smtp107.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Jun 2006 18:16:57 -0000 Message-ID: <449ADEAA.3090304@george.lbl.gov> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 11:17:14 -0700 From: "Jin Guojun [VFFS]" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20060317 X-Accept-Language: zh, zh-CN, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: usb@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:31:59 +0000 Cc: Subject: problem of boot/reboot from SimpleTech SP-U25/60 USB drive on PCG-6J2L X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:17:18 -0000 This is my first time to install FreeBSD 5.x/6.x on a USB drive, so I am not sure if the boot/reboot problem is particular to this drive (SimpleTech SP-U25/60), or it is a generic USB issue (I do not have a second USB drive to confirm the problem). This USB device contains a WDC WD60 0VE-07HDT0 0811 drive. System 1 -- desktop ECS 848P-A7 motherboard with 2GB DDR and Intel P4 506+ CPU ASUS Symbios 875 SCSI controller issues: (1a) attach some SEAGATE ST39102LW on SCSI controller, system boot OK, (1b) if a Toshiba XM-6201B CD drive or some old SCSI drives attached, BIOS can still detect this USB drive, but it is not bootable. It looks like hardware issue. (2) After system successfully boot up, reboot/shutdown [-h, -p] will hang the system after following message: No buffer busy after final sync Uptime: 2m11s Only way to get system reboot or shutdown is to power cycle the machine. System 2 -- laptop Sony VAIO PCG-6J2L Problem: installing FreeBSD 5.x/6.x on USB drive has no problem. system cannot boot (hangs system) regardless the FreeBSD install on this laptop or from other computer. system will not respond to soft-reset or any key stroke once hangs. Power down the system is the only way to go. Boot fails immediately once anything starting show on the screen. It looks like some type of error message repeatedly spiting on the screen. It scrolls too fast to read. It seems something like: int=###### ###### ........................................................................ ext=###### ###### ........................................................................ Is this a generic USB drive issue or particular problem for this USB drive with this VAIO machine? Is there a workaround to make a USB drive (or this USB drive) to boot from this VAIO laptop? I need to boot this laptop from an external drive. Please let me know how can I boot an external drive (any type external drive) on this Snoy VAIO PCG-6J2L laptop. TIA -Jin