From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 12 19:22:30 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B4E016A41F for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:22:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wawaka@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com (nz-out-0506.google.com [64.233.162.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19FA313C4BF for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:22:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wawaka@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 14so1494630nzn for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:22:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Zp5Y6t8XnHAsWihmDy3MQeXiN+QtCaMZssGOcY5GB8i4z4n6HzP1P+1qy25CpnhMb03E2KqG8husd2E03+pG1qfsiTVmXCLU+vR8IBgBVyrJTE9+EiSVdUTZ8RuVXY89FxuTABFf32CSbILtoSKljUbmpm+YPGT2PnxvMnjogg0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O89PgpxHD1iIbS6up9qbJ1YvO3QVgYjporlbShdxG1P8UhUCBiSOTX0CUHIIwkwdRvypwNQ5DKQngz2uZaAFCNfqlTs36cRYq6L0e51zlFA8dzgpMQk7PzC2EpJhI595J7G/KQxfozf/wXw3GosTYsG+SJSvlQZ6U83gsffA0aY= Received: by 10.142.115.10 with SMTP id n10mr363832wfc.1181676149284; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.41.21 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9fce1cdb0706121222x4074fhbc53a8126da38bde@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:22:29 +0400 From: WaW To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070612172030.GA81995@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9fce1cdb0706120932v21d918fbsa3ee9e4b79a1eb28@mail.gmail.com> <20070612172030.GA81995@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Subject: Re: Can't boot freebsd from usb device - Invalid slice X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:22:30 -0000 On 6/12/07, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:32:03PM +0400, WaW wrote: > > Hello. > > I'm trying to install freebsd 6.2-STABLE to usb device. After > > installation done successfully and reboot i getting messages like > > this: > > > > Invalid slice > > Invalid slice > > No /boot/loader > > > > FreeBSD/i386 boot > > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel > > boot: > > > > typing "da(0,a)/boot/loader" and many other variants had no success. > > Also i tried to install manually, allocating full disk for bsdlabel > > slice - same result. > > > > My motherboard is asus a8n-sli premium, and it is capable of booting > > from usb. Recently i successfully installed and booted opensuse from > > the same usb device. > > > > Is there any solution to make freebsd boot from usb device? > > > > PS as usb device i mean my usb flash and ata disk with external case, > > i tried both of them. > > I believe this has been discussed before. The conclusions I remember > being reached were that the FreeBSD bootloader has issues when trying > boot USB disks (pendrives, CF, hard disks, etc.). > > Using something like GRUB (yes, to boot FreeBSD) instead apparently > works fine. It's in ports; sysutils/grub. > > -- > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > Thanks, i'll try it. -- Vladimir K. aka WaW