Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:59:40 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Vincent Mialon <vincent@netaktiv.com>, tech@gitoyen.net Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: > I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested > the howto from > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u >sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3 FreeBSD release which boots on my pc but > doesn't boot on my supermicro server. > > Do you have any idea or pointer that may help me find the way to boot > this usb drive ? I may file a bug report if you want. I wanted to make a USB flash drive based installer for FreeBSD but unfortunately BTX seems to have issues that make it difficult to do reliably :( Here are 2 patches I tried.. http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch They improved things but I still found a number of systems where BTX would spin dumping register info so fast I couldn't read it (or take a photo..). Unfortunately I have no idea how you'd debug this sort of thing, it's too much like DOS programming for me :) FWIW when it did work it was great :) I used FreeSBIE as my base - it has stuff to build USB images in CVS (v2). http://www.freesbie.org/ I don't know if it's possible to use GRUB or something like that instead of BTX.. I have no experience with it, but I would be very interested if it did work (although since GRUB is i386 only and I use amd64 systems that's another hurdle..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBH0Ix85ZPcIHs/zowRAmZ+AKCMkJ89tLE+qKtBj/u84YYbNNfQYQCgm0ba xGSLcqK+tocQEC4wjXe/mco= =UBrn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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