From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 6 23:31:52 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9EAB16A41F for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 23:31:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from surferdamon@adelphia.net) Received: from mta13.adelphia.net (mta13.mail.adelphia.net [68.168.78.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0F9743D45 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 23:31:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from surferdamon@adelphia.net) Received: from [192.168.1.103] (really [69.167.39.216]) by mta13.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.01 201-2131-118-101-20041129) with ESMTP id <20050906233147.DXIQ12299.mta13.adelphia.net@[192.168.1.103]>; Tue, 6 Sep 2005 19:31:47 -0400 From: Damon Blom Organization: home To: as2sb3100@comcast.net, questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:31:30 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <090620051448.24959.431DAC4A00030AEB0000617F2200750784CFCFCECC0D9CCD9C0E@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <090620051448.24959.431DAC4A00030AEB0000617F2200750784CFCFCECC0D9CCD9C0E@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509061631.32713.surferdamon@adelphia.net> Cc: Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 110, Issue 24 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 23:31:52 -0000 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 > > 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) > > > > > > ------------------------------