From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 6 23:49:34 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93782106566C for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:49:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aiza21@comclark.com) Received: from avmxsmtp3.comclark.com (avmxsmtp3.comclark.com [202.69.191.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E3A38FC14 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:49:33 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AksRAMtdM0zKRa3YOWdsb2JhbAAHoAcBAQEBNYhBuDCFJASDdIZ8 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.53,549,1272816000"; d="scan'208";a="8749976" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.0.10.3]) ([202.69.173.216]) by avmxsmtp2.comclark.com with ESMTP; 07 Jul 2010 07:49:31 +0800 Message-ID: <4C33C108.9010801@comclark.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:49:28 +0800 From: Aiza User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graham Bentley References: <32956318D56C4ECEAE8EBDB86728D3E9@main> In-Reply-To: <32956318D56C4ECEAE8EBDB86728D3E9@main> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from Compact Flash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:49:34 -0000 Graham Bentley wrote: > OK I confess that this is associated with FreeNAS however > it seems rather quiet over there on the support forums and I > know there are some knowledgeable BSD people on this > list who may be willing to help on this ... > > Compact Flash: Kingston 4GB 45x Elite Pro [CF/4GB-S] > Target Mainboard: VIA EPIA-V10000 > * I D/L'ed FreeNAS-i386-embedded-0.7.2.5252.img > * I checksumed it with md5sum for WindowsXPP - it matched > * I used physdiskwrite v0.5.2 to write the image to CF on my desktop PC > * I hoooked up the CF to the target mainboard and booted the kernel > Now this is where things go awry .... I end up at this prompt ; > > mountroot> > > I can see the Kinston is ID as ad0 a few lines above at ata0-master. > If I enter ? I get a list of boot devices as follows ; ad0c ad0a ad0 > If I enter; mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad0a I get a 'panic: no init' message > and a reboot ; no other choice of boot device gives any such result. > CF boots perfectly hooked up to my desktop PC. On Via Mainboard > I have tried switching off all IDE 'modes' to zero etc but still no joy. > I tried using the verbose boot option and notice that following the CF > card being ID'ed I get the following ; > > ad0 VIA check1 failed > ad0 Adaptec check1 failed > ad0 LSI (v3) check1 failed > ad0 LSI (v2) check1 failed > ado FreeBSD check1 failed > > Would I be right in thinking that its chipset support for this baord is > whats > preventing access to the root of the OS/FS? > > And if it is, is it possible to add module support somehow? > > Thanks in advance of any help :) > Maybe this will be helpful http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11715