From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 08:48:39 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BB25B0 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:48:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from zoom.lafn.org (zoom.lafn.org [108.92.93.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6A0781D for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.0.1.4] (pool-98-112-217-228.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [98.112.217.228]) (authenticated bits=0) by zoom.lafn.org (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id r0U8mWhA033299 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:48:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Subject: Re: Booting Problem Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1283) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:48:31 -0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <95407B50-A296-4012-A2C4-014321C48C74@lafn.org> <20130129121852.03538e59@papi> To: doug@safeport.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1283) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.97 at zoom.lafn.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Mario Lobo , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:48:39 -0000 On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, doug@safeport.com wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: >=20 >> On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: >>=20 >>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 >>> Doug Hardie wrote: >>>=20 >>>> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. = The >>>> bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD = drive. >>>> It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader >>>> message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, = time >>>> the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 >>>> times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for >>>> another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more = happens. >>>>=20 >>>> The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external >>>> drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and >>>> temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I >>>> would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will >>>> become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable >>>> option. >=20 > What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have = built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an = external hard drive? 9.1 release - Generic. Basically the disk1. Don't have an extra = external drive. >=20 > Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on = the drive, and put it back. =46rom that point on you should be able to = use the network to upgrade. I have done that before and it does work. However, with the various = changes to the system, the root partition I had previously built that = way for 8.2 is just not large enough for 9.1. Also, I wanted to go to a = single partition (the 9.1 default). Probably freebsd-update will take = me through major releases after this, but I was hoping for a better = solution so I could avoid having to transport the machine a long way = twice to be able to update it. >=20 >=20