Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:13:12 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Vincent Mialon <vincent@netaktiv.com>, tech@gitoyen.net Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <200803070913.12978.jhb@freebsd.org> 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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On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm 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 :( > > Here are 2 patches I tried.. > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch Try this instead: http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch (btx_crx has been in the base system for a while FWIW). This is somewhat similar to kib's patch but fixes at least one bug I found in kib's patch (and uses some slightly different approaches in a few places). -- John Baldwin
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