From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 23 22:41:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D47106566C for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:41:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheusber@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FFB88FC15 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:41:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matheusber@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so1104677qwb.7 for ; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:41:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:received :message-id:in-reply-to:references:date:subject:from:to:user-agent :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority :importance; bh=HoNP7O78lbFQN4jB9+ULu+DApocVq0M+gIovsDQI8tY=; b=uDl/+UEEA8s5NjI2Fe12Bgzr74wk6siq4GUonGSgVvdXduPz4Jq+1+fvSF3LVico1G C5gjNNwrhpgCm/C9ca0YD4egzBdtQqTBk+16y1XUT8n19hfat4fG2qKHCSN4OAM0lR6P nL1HIAGEWiXy4BWwIzxrrkPens+ee5Urno8os= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:in-reply-to:references:date:subject:from:to :user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :x-priority:importance; b=QNHyON0okwrOUTx06YsLKyax9deP31gY26eMOnUIx+KtDB5Rq17DBugexDkGhxWKVd xzjVkpGJSrYbJSVZCoYPjHs1Oqn29XbhSaIk/G8M5iCrBJQf+kLUW9lN1Zp6V9NCzWD6 nF/fdNzV5Nhj/6pGGVO42Ya70NMK8RkWoXvzM= Received: by 10.224.61.6 with SMTP id r6mr9772631qah.160.1237848063051; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:41:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cygnus.homeunix.com ([189.71.18.191]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm737517yxm.8.2009.03.23.15.41.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:41:02 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Nenhum_de_Nos Received: by cygnus.homeunix.com (Postfix, from userid 80) id 55B77B8074; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:40:54 -0300 (BRT) Received: from 189.92.6.212 (SquirrelMail authenticated user matheus) by cygnus.homeunix.com with HTTP; Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:40:54 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:40:54 -0300 (BRT) From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Subject: Re: Booting from usb hard disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 23 Mar 2009 22:41:04 -0000 On Mon, March 23, 2009 07:36, Robert Noland wrote: > So I have my i386 install on a usb hard disk, which I can only boot on > one machine now. The one machine that I can make work has a bios option > that reads "BIOS ehci handoff". This used to work with the old usb > stack. The machines that it doesn't work on, boot the kernel, but fail > to mount root, giving me the forbidding mountroot> prompt, which is > immediately followed by the message saying that da0 is attached. da0 is > however not listed in the available boot devices list. I tried playing > around with the timeout in vfs_mount.c, but that didn't seem to have any > impact. It has been suggested that this may be a "geom" timeout, but I > don't know anything about the boot system really. I had problem a while ago with via mini itx hardware, that was quite close. If I try boot from usb (installed in usb hdd), I get to the point of loader not finding my disk. I then used a small flash disk attached to the ata (44 pin ide) channel and formatted /boot in there. this way I get to the point of mount root you said, and da0 not being alive soon enough to mount root. list disks also couldn't find da0 though. I tried current from that time, and no good. if this is solved, I'll be happy to try whatever patch to current. (as long as I can install it from another box/or its ata channel, as it can't boot vanilla 7.1R) matheus -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be