From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 13 05:17:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A02D106564A for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:17:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51FCB8FC08 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:17:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.gsoft.com.au (Ur.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.44]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oBD5HIJl058423 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:47:24 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Apple-Mail-146-377626062; protocol="application/pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <20101213033603.GA91170@icarus.home.lan> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:47:18 +1030 Message-Id: References: <20101212151704.197dddee@core.draftnet> <4D050197.8010600@cs.wpi.edu> <20101213131456.Y83735@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20101213033603.GA91170@icarus.home.lan> To: Jeremy Chadwick X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) X-Spam-Score: -2.51 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Michael Voorhis , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ian Smith Subject: Re: 8.2-BETA1 sysinstall: No USB devices found X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:17:44 -0000 --Apple-Mail-146-377626062 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 13/12/2010, at 14:06, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > The result: I was able to get things like memtest86+ and DBAN to boot, > and very specific Linux distributions (with a lot of pain), in = addition > to FreeBSD. However, FreeBSD would always fail to find the necessary > installation packages/sources/etc. due to "how" the whole booting > process above works. I had to spend a lot of time messing around with > MEMLINUX and the "map --hook rootnoverify (0xff)" parameters and = similar > whatnots: For just FreeBSD I have used syslinux to boot an MFS and then have = sysinstall read off the USB stick as a hard disk. I submitted a few patches and they're committed now so you can probably = do it out of the box. The only pain is generating the MFS but that isn't _too_ tricky. It would be nice if it was generated during the normal 'make release' = though (hint hint) Also, I tried a minimal MFS and then loading the kernel directly from = FAT32 using the loader but I could never get it to "see" the FAT32 even = though by my reading of the code it should work.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --Apple-Mail-146-377626062--