From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 7 06:54:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9797716A412 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 06:54:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1462443CA2 for ; Thu, 7 Dec 2006 06:53:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from swhetzel@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so340138uge for ; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:54:09 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=O+fRWMjn8+lUKO7j5LGyHYWXkhNQgbvXnNDSFQ+j+zp4+OJDyYJadVlVjZmqppecU+x0Nqs7wmjYpJqXa32aWmPyzl9HG0tLePINYKFQK/N2uGlfOaVQTQD//5pYIpVIOW7z1g5NaNHPtusWLApFZ4EiNORZn0voV9uB4jkB9+c= Received: by 10.67.121.15 with SMTP id y15mr2270321ugm.1165474086095; Wed, 06 Dec 2006 22:48:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.67.86.15 with HTTP; Wed, 6 Dec 2006 22:48:05 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <790a9fff0612062248u59e3b49cqc9be8c980a982a16@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:48:05 -0600 From: "Scot Hetzel" To: "Torfinn Ingolfsen" In-Reply-To: <20061206210211.eae66419.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061126181325.O13925-100000@xs6.xs4all.nl> <200611291340.00524.jhb@freebsd.org> <200612061256.38046.jhb@freebsd.org> <20061206210211.eae66419.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX halted trying to boot X4100 from disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 06:54:11 -0000 On 12/6/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen 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 -- DISCLAIMER: No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised.