Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:48:05 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk Message-ID: <790a9fff0612062248u59e3b49cqc9be8c980a982a16@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061206210211.eae66419.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> References: <20061126181325.O13925-100000@xs6.xs4all.nl> <200611291340.00524.jhb@freebsd.org> <200612061256.38046.jhb@freebsd.org> <20061206210211.eae66419.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On 12/6/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> wrote:
> I have a laptop (runs FreeBSD / i386) which works ok with the internal
> drive, but refuses to boot from an external (usb) hard drive [1].
> I wonder if this fix would help with this problem...
>
> 1) The problem is hard to debug, because as soon as I try too boot a
> FreeBSD partition off a usb hard drive, the screen starts scrolling
> what looks like register dumps (hard to tell, it rolls by too quickly)
> in an endless loop.
> However, I have no problems booting NetBSD or OpenBSD from other
> partitions on the same hard drive.
>
I have a similar problem booting FreeBSD/AMD64 from a cdrom drive on a
HP dv8000 system. What I found is that it starts the registery dump
after I see /boot/loader.conf on the screen.
I found a work arround, in which if I press the spacebar until I see
on the screen that it is loading the kernel (i.e.
/boot/kernel/kernel).
see PR 105514
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=105514
Try using the above work arround, and see if it will allow you to boot
off of the usb drive.
Scot
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