From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 09:26:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4EF216A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2847143F3F for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:26:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1A20872DA3; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1799572DA2; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:26:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:26:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr." In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20030925092601.A8717@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB CD/RW? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:26:51 -0000 On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > Can anyone give me some pointers about how to boot a 4.9 Beta CD on a USB > CD/RW? Or, at the very least, tell me that it doesn't work and that I > should quit trying. This involves having BIOS support to boot USB, and Int13 emulation of USB I/O so loader can do its work. Looks like your system doesn't provide this. > I get the 2.88 MB floppy message and then the boot fails with the > messages "Not ufs", "No /boot/loader" and "No /kernel". -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org