From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 28 07:52:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C2D4EE1 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:52:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erich@alogt.com) Received: from alogt.com (alogt.com [69.36.191.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E383EFC for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:52:56 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alogt.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:Mime-Version:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=Elh37YJ0Y0ThG7WXg6mT3ncmwBl3xksxf59PrbbKYgg=; b=rXRQMXtgKkrnw8V1tSdy0CMFjN1KX6dbEklMPuPzZja9ioj5rspdPE1HXPMdQngSN7LfGZxeyb5760D8ZQR2QPaPp6gLnM9gzmyWyeRt6AuVkw3Fq7kmYlj5vNjmv1lG; Received: from [122.129.203.50] (port=33944 helo=X220.ovitrap.com) by sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net with esmtpsa (SSLv3:DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1TzjWQ-001klh-Rg for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 28 Jan 2013 00:52:55 -0700 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:52:51 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky To: Subject: FreeBSD 10, booting from USB failes Message-ID: <20130128145251.059fb970@X220.ovitrap.com> Organization: ALO Green Technologies X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd10.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - alogt.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: sl-508-2.slc.westdc.net: authenticated_id: erich@alogt.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:38:01 +0000 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 07:52:56 -0000 Hi, I have several thumb drives and had disks. To be able to exchange the hard disks, all devices are bootable. I have tested the setup some time ago and it did not give me problems to boot from the external media via USB. I will take two hard disks as an example: => 63 976773105 ada0 MBR (465G) 63 1953 - free - (976k) 2016 976771152 1 freebsd (465G) => 0 976771152 ada0s1 BSD (465G) 0 10240000 1 freebsd-ufs (4.9G) 10240000 32768000 2 freebsd-swap (15G) 43008000 10240000 4 freebsd-ufs (4.9G) 53248000 10240000 5 freebsd-ufs (4.9G) 63488000 102400000 6 freebsd-ufs (48G) 165888000 810883144 7 freebsd-ufs (386G) 976771144 8 - free - (4.0k) => 34 976773098 da0 GPT (465G) 34 128 1 freebsd-boot (64k) 162 6 - free - (3.0k) 168 10485760 2 freebsd-ufs (5.0G) 10485928 33554432 3 freebsd-swap (16G) 44040360 10485760 4 freebsd-ufs (5.0G) 54526120 10485760 5 freebsd-ufs (5.0G) 65011880 104857600 6 freebsd-ufs (50G) 169869480 806903648 7 freebsd-ufs (384G) 976773128 4 - free - (2.0k) The system started from ada0. It fails to start from da0 now. Before I switch the disks, does anybody know of something which causes the problem? If this matters, I did this with an X220 ThinkPad. Erich