From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 4 06:16:50 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E20D16A46B for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 06:16:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fredbsdavidson@yahoo.com) Received: from n21b.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com (n21b.bullet.mail.sp1.yahoo.com [69.147.65.253]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 043A013C45D for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2007 06:16:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fredbsdavidson@yahoo.com) Received: from [216.252.122.217] by n21.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jun 2007 06:16:49 -0000 Received: from [68.142.237.87] by t2.bullet.sp1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jun 2007 06:16:49 -0000 Received: from [66.196.101.131] by t3.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jun 2007 06:16:49 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by rrr2.mail.re1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 04 Jun 2007 06:16:49 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-5 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 777243.63769.bm@rrr2.mail.re1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 79022 invoked by uid 60001); 4 Jun 2007 06:16:49 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=nz9vqLDUUMxqqXOXJO8P0vxD0EDU1QVjPNDkqgofc7vEfC9SeaIUxmtP0JQzwECgvib3PrSPpSv2vmUS1t1uKvSyJaGaUCni+GrzsRhcrIdqxhq3KvIc2rum++g61nMY0euiVAnc6pfnLPZZT6fsZk8wBbYsDAgegzickBieTFM=; X-YMail-OSG: 4bDGwkAVM1mzZpZlO4h7O9nmrD_uGsogeLZttpkc8kgweag.zzy7JvSo02JW3.jEJG0RUpVXZ6MIEisB_jMlu4G.zw-- Received: from [62.194.166.79] by web57402.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:16:49 PDT Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 23:16:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Davidson To: Andrey Shuvikov , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <24393ae80706030809u23e037eo165abeb3889d7205@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <604643.78169.qm@web57402.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick 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: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:16:50 -0000 --- Andrey Shuvikov wrote: > Did you copy it recursively (with sub-directories)? > If yes then you > didn't need to copy > /boot/grub separately. If no, you'll probably need > to copy at least > /boot/defaults . > And /boot/kernel as well if you really want to > boot... > > Andrey # In /boot I did cp -Rpv * /usb/boot #I'm not sure why it can get as far as the BTX loader #info, but can't manage to load the kernel. It clearly #can read the ufs2 now. I don't really know much about #the specifics of the startup process, but I thought #as soon as the loader was invoked, the first thing it #tries to do is load the kernel into memory. I just #double checked and the kernel is located on the stick #at USB/boot/kernel/kernel. This must have happened to #someone else before. -Fred p.s. just a shot in the dark, but does anyone think grub might not be able to load the kernel because it runs out of some kind of internal allotment of memory? ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for earth-friendly autos? Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. http://autos.yahoo.com/green_center/