Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:18:42 -0500 From: John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <200803071418.43480.lists@jnielsen.net> In-Reply-To: <200803070913.12978.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <200803070913.12978.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On Friday 07 March 2008 09:13:12 am John Baldwin wrote: > 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). I have a laptop that does the BTX register-spin thing when booting from USB even if I use Grub, so I'll give your patch a try. The first hunk doesn't apply cleanly on today's 7-STABLE sources--the new page tables entry at line 29 throws it off. I applied that hunk manually and am rebuilding now. FWIW the laptop is an Intel-based Gateway M465-E, and it boots from (internal) CD just fine. I don't currently have space or a partition on the internal hard drive for a FreeBSD install, hence the USB stick. JN
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