Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:05:04 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd on i386-type internet appliance and cf card Message-ID: <44wt4dxtun.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <539c60b90612221350t77ca840u56ddd68943a8b57c@mail.gmail.com> (Steve Franks's message of "Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:50:46 -0700") References: <539c60b90612221350t77ca840u56ddd68943a8b57c@mail.gmail.com>
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"Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org> writes: > So, I've installed freebsd on a compact flash card sucessfully in my laptop > (or so it looks - sysinstall completes to /dev/ad4, copies everything, no > errors, etc) with the regular harddisk removed (for safety, of course). > > Only it won't boot on the internet appliance when I stick the CF in there > (that's it's only supported boot device). I get the F1 - Freebsd bootloader > prompt, then nothing more. I let it sit for a good 10 min, just to be sure. > > It's a i386 compatible processor, and people have sucessfully run at least 3 > flavors of linux on it, as well as win98 from what I can glean on the net. > > If I restart sysinstall, I can see the partition was written, but I can't > mount it from a running bsd machine - "incorrect superblock", which I think > has to do with the following (aka. all or dd partitions): > > I tried 'all three' modes of partition - "create", "all", and "DD". Each > time sysinstall completes, each time F1 - freebsd, but nothing more. > > Used 'auto' on the label editor - the defaults seemed reasonable... > > Thoughts? It doesn't sound like the system hardware is relevant; I think the card isn't sufficiently installed to boot anywhere. Also, you should be able to do without the bootloader menu (although it shouldn't hurt anything). Perhaps it's just a matter of the root device being wrong? You might need to set root_disk_unit (or rootdev or currdev) for the loader.
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