Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:31:30 -0700 From: Damon Blom <surferdamon@adelphia.net> To: as2sb3100@comcast.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 110, Issue 24 Message-ID: <200509061631.32713.surferdamon@adelphia.net> In-Reply-To: <090620051448.24959.431DAC4A00030AEB0000617F2200750784CFCFCECC0D9CCD9C0E@comcast.net> References: <090620051448.24959.431DAC4A00030AEB0000617F2200750784CFCFCECC0D9CCD9C0E@comcast.net>
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Hi
Thank's for the response. It will not even start boot. comes back
F2 Freebsd
F5 drive 1
If I hit it again returns original
F1 ?
F2 Freebsd
F5 drive 1
I tried using fdisk to write member again
fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/da0
but it wouldn't do anything - said no geom. Believe this was because I used
whole disk. But in slot 1 is the freebsd type 165.
I think it is a bios problem.
(I did change /mnt/etc to give mounts of new disk daos1a, da0s1d)
Just got an external 200 G usb drive that I will try the same thing. I now
have da0 maxtor 194481 MB
da1 hp digital drive 976 MB
Thank's
Damon
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 07:48 am, you wrote:
> I've installed FreeBSD to a 1gb usb drive, but getting it to boot is really
> the hard part. The new dells at my work boot off the USB drive just fine,
> but the Gateways at my school (that did have a boot from usb option) seem
> to have a problem with it. The Gateway BIOS must not have drivers, or
> something, Im not sure, but the Gateways would boot off my USB harddrive
> that had freebsd on it. If your getting to the boot loader though, it
> should work. Are you booting from usb, or your hd? And what kind of
> errors is it giving you? I had some problems with it changing the device
> name, but that was when i was going from one computer to another. Some
> computers have different usb devices/drivers and so it changes the device
> name, I don't know the exact details. It's been a while since I did this.
> When the boot loader trys to load the kernel, and then it trys to mount the
> filesystem (or the umm, something) it trys to look in da0s1, but it might
> change to something else. When you copied / and /usr over to your usb
> drive, it also copied settings and stuff (not realy sure). It might be
> trying to load the filesystem from da0s1 (mian hd) instead of da1s2 or
> something wierd like that. Id try and actually install FreeBSD to your USB
> drive using a bootable FreeBSD cd. I was surprised when it detected the
> USB drive. You of course don't get the most updated version, but it will
> probably work a lot better. Interestingly, Windows 2k will see a usb drive
> also, but of course it fails like it always does. Hope this helps, or at
> least points you in the right direction. For a better explanation of the
> booting process read
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot.html I'm
> sure that I messed it all up in the way I explained it.
>
> Eric Stringer
>
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 21:45:24 -0700
> > From: Damon Blom <surferdamon@adelphia.net>
> > Subject: freebsd on memory card
> > To: questions@freebsd.org
> > Message-ID: <200509052145.24906.surferdamon@adelphia.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >
> > Hi
> > presario r3000 amd64 freebsd-current 7.0
> > ad0: 76319MB Hitachi DK23FA-80
> > da0 HP Digital drive 1.00 > Removable direct access SCSI -0 Device
> > dual XP/FreeBSD with easy boot
> > used sysinstall to configure da0 as entire freebsd
> > da0s1a /tmp 390MB
> > da0s1d /tmp/usr 600MB
> > used gtar to transfer / to /mnt
> > transfer /usr to /mnt/usr (Cheat Sheet)
> > usb bootable (bios) shows
> > F1 ? (win)
> > F2 Freebsd
> > F5 Drive 1
> > But will not boot . I did same thing on desktop with a second hard
> > drive and it booted fine. Is it because memory card is not really a hard
> > drive? Any way to do it ?
> > Thank's
> > Damon
> > and thank's so much for freebsd (my whole life)
> >
> >
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