Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:05:07 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <fqrlbi$n54$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Vincent Mialon wrote: > The boot selector is shown and I can choose between the two images that > nanobsd generated. When it times out BTX crash with very fast scrolling > lines. When I shutdown I can see "BTX Halted" with processor registers > written on the screen. I tried different ways to bypass this error using grub > but when the kernel is launched, grub (or the kernel) crashes (even with a > GENERIC kernel). Hi, It is known that the default boot loader (BTX) can have problems with various configuration that somewhat deviate from what was the standard many years ago when it was written. For example, it sometimes fails for me to boot from hardware RAID arrays (twice so far), etc. In all cases, using sysutils/extipl helped - it's an alternative boot loader and it works for me on both i386 and amd64. Install FreeBSD where you want it as usual, then run extipl on the boot device to install its default setup (if you're installing from a CD media, run the fixit shell, mount and chroot into the newly installed system, install extipl from ports, change sysctl kern.geom.debugflags to 16, run it). I didn't need to tweak any of its advanced settings. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH0VmkldnAQVacBcgRAn5xAJ9vOD6wv8IIl+7DBQcpDkqcE8HvpwCgv28m UkxcBOHcl4QoGOzOmulDpTo= =XmPr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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