From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 22 23:15:40 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A10616A469 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 23:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikesw@adhost.com) Received: from mail-defer01.adhost.com (mail-defer01.adhost.com [216.211.128.150]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CB813C487 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 23:15:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mikesw@adhost.com) Received: from mail-in01.adhost.com (mail-in01.adhost.com [10.211.128.146]) by mail-defer01.adhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0463ED6EA for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:56:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikesw@adhost.com) Received: from ad-exh01.adhost.lan (unknown [216.211.143.69]) by mail-in01.adhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B07F61C62 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 15:56:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mikesw@adhost.com) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:56:53 -0700 Message-ID: <17838240D9A5544AAA5FF95F8D52031602170C4D@ad-exh01.adhost.lan> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Problems with USB drive booting, installing over NFS mount Thread-Index: AcecxH0gomNdFj7hQy2q22UyrVHtSw== From: "Mike Sweetser - Adhost" To: Subject: Problems with USB drive booting, installing over NFS mount X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 23:15:40 -0000 I've been trying to get a server installed with FreeBSD 6.1 from either a USB CD or floppy, or an NFS mount for nearly a week, with no luck. (The server has no CD-ROM drive or floppy drive, and is SATA-only). When trying to boot from the FreeBSD install CD from a USB CD-ROM drive, or when booting from a boot floppy from a USB floppy drive, at the very start of booting, it starts scrolling a hexadecimal dump, and becomes unresponsive. I've set up a basic FreeBSD server install as a PXE/TFTP/NFS server and have the server booting off that into FreeBSD, but whenever I run sysinstall, I get as far as it extracting the distribution. At the first area, once it gets to 7%, it always errors out, saying that it's lost connection to the NFS mount. It never reestablished the connection and hangs there. Any ideas of anything I can do? This is really getting frustrating. Mike Sweetser -------------------------- Mike Sweetser | Systems Administrator Adhost Internet 140 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 360, Seattle, Washington 98109 USA P 206.404.9000 T 888.234.6781 (ADHOST-1) F 206.404.9050 E mikesw@adhost.com W adhost.com Our brand new Adhost West data center is open - contact us for a tour at 1-888-234-6781 (ADHOST-1)