From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 05:55:19 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 B5E6516A46E for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:55:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EC7B13C45D for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:55:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l5D5tIV6072472; Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:55:18 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:55:18 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Jeremy Chadwick In-Reply-To: <20070612172030.GA81995@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Message-ID: <20070613095326.J71077@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <9fce1cdb0706120932v21d918fbsa3ee9e4b79a1eb28@mail.gmail.com> <20070612172030.GA81995@eos.sc1.parodius.com> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:55:18 +0400 (MSD) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, WaW 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: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:55:19 -0000 On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: JC> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:32:03PM +0400, WaW wrote: JC> > Hello. JC> > I'm trying to install freebsd 6.2-STABLE to usb device. After JC> > installation done successfully and reboot i getting messages like JC> > this: JC> > JC> > Invalid slice JC> > Invalid slice JC> > No /boot/loader JC> > JC> > FreeBSD/i386 boot JC> > Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel JC> > boot: JC> > JC> > typing "da(0,a)/boot/loader" and many other variants had no success. JC> > Also i tried to install manually, allocating full disk for bsdlabel JC> > slice - same result. JC> > JC> > My motherboard is asus a8n-sli premium, and it is capable of booting JC> > from usb. Recently i successfully installed and booted opensuse from JC> > the same usb device. JC> > JC> > Is there any solution to make freebsd boot from usb device? JC> > JC> > PS as usb device i mean my usb flash and ata disk with external case, JC> > i tried both of them. JC> JC> I believe this has been discussed before. The conclusions I remember JC> being reached were that the FreeBSD bootloader has issues when trying JC> boot USB disks (pendrives, CF, hard disks, etc.). JC> JC> Using something like GRUB (yes, to boot FreeBSD) instead apparently JC> works fine. It's in ports; sysutils/grub. I have sliced 2G USB stick which boots FreeBSD on some motherboards and chokes on 'invalid slice' on others. I did not find the dihotomy point yet. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------