From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 14:26:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E8916A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:26:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from winston.piwebs.com (217-19-20-186.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.20.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1A9F443D2D for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:26:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 5092 invoked from network); 17 Jun 2004 14:25:32 -0000 Received: from localhost.piwebs.com (HELO winston.piwebs.com) (127.0.0.1) by winston.piwebs.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 2004 14:25:32 -0000 Received: from 212.83.93.49 (SquirrelMail authenticated user avleeuwen@piwebs.com) by winston.piwebs.com with HTTP; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:25:32 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <26504.212.83.93.49.1087482332.squirrel@winston.piwebs.com> In-Reply-To: <40D19BE9.2090802@gneto.com> References: <25271.212.83.93.49.1087477105.squirrel@winston.piwebs.com> <40D19BE9.2090802@gneto.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:25:32 +0200 (CEST) From: avleeuwen@piwebs.com To: "Martin Nilsson" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: avleeuwen@piwebs.com Subject: Re: Loader failure when booting from CompactFlash X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:26:30 -0000 > avleeuwen@piwebs.com wrote: >> I'm trying to boot a compact -CURRENT installation from a CompactFlash >> disk on a Lex Light mini system (see www.lex.com.tw). > > I've installed ThinBSD (which is based on 5.2.1) on a Lex Light and it > works. > >> If I boot from a hard drive, it works fine, but when I boot from the >> CompactFlash, it crashes immediately when attempting to start the >> loader. >> It gives an error message, but the system immediately restarts, so I >> can't >> read it. The CompactFlash disk boots fine in a completely different >> system. > > How have you formatted (slices/labels) the flash? I was unable to get it > to boot if I did it in another computer with a 7in1 cardreader.. I had > to boot on a FreeBSD CD in the lex and run sysinstall from there. (CD > was connected via USB). Thanks! An install from CD works indeed. But as soon as I overwrite the data on the partition with my own (with a dump/restore in the cardreader), the same thing happens again. I guess it's not the partitioning that is to blame. I'll experiment with leaving /boot alone. Arjan