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Am 05.12.2011 um 21:04 schrieb Monthadar Al Jaberi:

> Hi,
>=20
> sorry if this is old and answered somewhere, but I cant seem to find a =
solution:
>=20
> I am trying to boot Freebsd current root file system @ RouterStation
> Pro from usb (I did it before) but I cant remember how to do it.
>=20
> I know I need  ROOTDEVNAME=3D\"ufs:/dev/da0\" but I dont seem to =
manage
> to create a bottable root fs=85

How are you creating your filesystem? newfs on a little-endian machine =
will not do the right thing.  You can use makefs -B big to create an =
image, then dd it to the partition.


Stefan

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Stefan Bethke <stb@lassitu.de>   Fon +49 151 14070811