From owner-freebsd-firewire@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 19 09:43:28 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC9D01065676 for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:43:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from flymac@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout015.mac.com (asmtpout015.mac.com [17.148.16.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 897B68FC1C for ; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:43:26 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Received: from spool004.mac.com ([10.150.69.54]) by asmtp015.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KWH00C2BK7HUY20@asmtp015.mac.com> for freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:43:12 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=2 spamscore=2 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1001190008 Received: from webmail076 ([10.13.128.76]) by spool004.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTP id <0KWH003GXK7I17A0@spool004.mac.com> for freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:42:54 -0800 (PST) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=1 spamscore=1 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=5.0.0-0908210000 definitions=main-1001190008 Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:42:54 +0100 From: Kevin Roettger To: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org Message-id: <122773021388063697565656768835963591048-Webmail@me.com> Received: from [88.191.64.145] from webmail.me.com with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:42:54 +0100 Received: from [ 88.221.192.5] from webmail.me.com with HTTP; Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:42:54 +0100 X-Originating-IP: 88.191.64.145, 88.221.192.5 Subject: Boot from Firewire (VIA Fire II) X-BeenThere: freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Firewire support in FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:43:28 -0000 Hello, I am trying to boot from a Firewire drive using FreeBSD 8.0 on a i386 system. My motherboard is an Asus A7V8X-X and Firewire ports are provided using a VIA Fire II (VT6306) PCI card. The card works once FreeBSD is booted from internal IDE drive for example (seen as fwohci0) but I cannot boot from it. I've tried pretty much all boot possibilities in the BIOS and no luck (it doesn't even find the drive). My question is: is it possible to "bootstrap" from another source (USB stick, floppy...), load a small kernel with Firewire support to see the drive and then switch kernels to "boot again" from that FW drive? Of course It would be nice to not need the USB stick for anything once switched to the FW drive (but not mandatory). Actually, FreeBSD is already installed on this machine but using internal IDE, I'd like to remove all drives from inside the computer case and use only an external drive enclosure. Ideally I would like to keep the same drive and not reinstall (of course I assume fstab changes are needed). Many thanks for your help! Kevin