From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 14:36:09 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 0E1541065679 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:36:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE4828FC23 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:36:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from zion.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C9071A4D8C; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 06:18:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:13:12 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200803070913.12978.jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: Vincent Mialon , tech@gitoyen.net 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 14:36:09 -0000 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