Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:49:17 +0100 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: vincent@netaktiv.com, tech@gitoyen.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <47D10F9D.4040603@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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Daniel O'Connor wrote: > 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 :( I did it in the past. I have 512MB USB flashdisk with 30MB bootable partition from miniboot.iso (FreeBSD 6.2) with GRUB. I used it to install system on Sun Fire X2100 servers without CD-ROM. > 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..) I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all systems works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later stage. Miroslav Lachmanhome | help
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