Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:47:47 +0200 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: USB key with -CURRENT, but /root not found on one laptop Message-ID: <20090421084747.GA3482@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <200904210837.57231.hselasky@c2i.net> References: <20090421061411.GA4047@rebelion.Sisis.de> <200904210837.57231.hselasky@c2i.net>
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El día Tuesday, April 21, 2009 a las 08:37:56AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky escribió: > On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I've a boot-able USB key with -CURRENT from which I have booted and > > installed fine my small EeePC. I now wanted to update with the same > > procedure the laptop of my wife (which still runs RELENG_7) to make her > > happy access to the wonderful world of -CURRENT :-) > > > > the laptop itself can't boot from USB devices but there is still the old > > boot block on the disk which sees the USB as 'Drive 1' and offers to > > boot from by typing F5: > > > > F1: FreeBSD > > F5: Drive 1 > > > > I typed F5 > > ... additional information: I did the same on some other laptop I have and there is a message: Root mount waiting for: ubus4 before the message da0: <Ut165 USB2FlashStorage 0.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 7712MB (15794176 512 byte sectors: 255H 63 S/T 983C) comes up and then again Root mount waiting for: ubus4 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0sa1 which works fine and the system comes up from USB key; maybe this helps to figure out what the problem is; thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ People who hate Microsoft Windows use Linux but people who love UNIX use FreeBSD.
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