From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 12:06:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AC7A106566B; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:06:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18B678FC15; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:06:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-85-109.lns10.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.85.109]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m27C5xud012368 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 22:36:00 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Jeremy Chadwick Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 22:35:43 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <47D10F9D.4040603@quip.cz> <20080307095145.GA21904@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080307095145.GA21904@eos.sc1.parodius.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1227457.lgPNTGYWgV"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803072235.51881.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: vincent@netaktiv.com, tech@gitoyen.net, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:06:09 -0000 --nextPart1227457.lgPNTGYWgV Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > 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. > > All of what you've said is correct. I'm not sure who's having > problems with GRUB on USB sticks, because yes, it does work. (There > are some USB stick models, however, which do not support booting.=20 > That's a vendor/manufacturer problem however.) My experience with GRUB is limited to trying to get the port to install=20 on an amd64 machine (failed).. And as Rink says - amd64 kernels rely on things the loader does to work,=20 although I guess it might be possible to add that to GRUB. =2D-=20 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 --nextPart1227457.lgPNTGYWgV Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBH0S+f5ZPcIHs/zowRArnYAKCY5/DWOW7SW+w7ek+dzBF0T0M9QQCdE/9i d/d09D3kJClXUnmT0SxQTdw= =33Mb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1227457.lgPNTGYWgV--