From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 1 02:41:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4EDD16A4CE for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:41:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.svenskabutiker.se (ns.svenskabutiker.se [212.247.101.67]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 714D743FAF for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:41:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martin@mullet.se) Received: from mullet.se (h118n1fls31o985.telia.com [213.65.16.118]) by mail.svenskabutiker.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF1E37767 for ; Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:41:06 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3FCB1AC0.5070109@mullet.se> Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:41:04 +0100 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Is booting/installing from USB CDROM considered supported? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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, 01 Dec 2003 10:41:09 -0000 I tried to install our CD/FDD-less servers from a CD-RW drive connected on the USB port, the bootloader complains about "not ufs" and wants me to enter a new boot device. This is 4.9-Release On a late October current the system reboots. I'll try with a fresh 5.2-BETA later today and see what happens with it. in the meantime I just want to ask: Is booting the install CD over a USB connected CDROM supposed to be working? --- Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN E-mail: martin@mullet.se, Phone: +46-(0)708-606170, http://www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers optimized for FreeBSD and Linux.