From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 5 10:48:40 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 A3A6416A468 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:48:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fredbsdavidson@yahoo.com) Received: from n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com (n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com [68.142.237.123]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54A0F13C45A for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:48:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fredbsdavidson@yahoo.com) Received: from [68.142.230.28] by n10.bullet.re3.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jun 2007 10:35:42 -0000 Received: from [66.196.101.131] by t1.bullet.re2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jun 2007 10:35:42 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by rrr2.mail.re1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 05 Jun 2007 10:35:42 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 169612.40944.bm@rrr2.mail.re1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 97286 invoked by uid 60001); 5 Jun 2007 10:35:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=lC3EgUhskQ/H/92yL21JcLLa4E++9B9omM4qVltzSLrdK6Y/OFJQO/zxHyv04ooDoxqchXckh8Zz4TjRy4f3fHrboR66wernkuYKHuUw/Sg+kjCXoMYajkT18Ir7ZZhSFok/0+TLhd6X7XaDRT5rwyXRLsm/fnmDpj4KdZpT+vg=; X-YMail-OSG: 8y2U_c8VM1kd5EGKdScucpOdmsKbkuSJQncIdx_3HWC30YBBSOn5Ba.TWnx8TVlv6CqJTtooGejcrTQxeli32kOzawE_gBCnZokccP5QBJi39TLhLBNCXl9RYkyIG62h Received: from [64.157.15.26] by web57402.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:35:42 PDT Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 03:35:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Fred Davidson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <91802.95952.qm@web57402.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick 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, 05 Jun 2007 10:48:40 -0000 It seems like this thread isn't getting updated when I post for some reason. This will be the last one I try until I figure out what's wrong. #I've done some more tests. In my last post I had booted # from the usb key. the results of lsdev from the boot #loader prompt were: OK lsdev cd devices: disk devices: disk0: BIOS drive C: disk1: BIOS drive D: disk1s1a: FFS disk1s1b: swap disk1s1d: FFS # If I booted from the hard drive first I got: cd devices: disk devices: disk0: BIOS Drive C: disk0s1a: FFS disk0s1b: swap disk1s1d: FFS disk1L BIOS Drive D: #So it's clear that which ever drive is booted from #first between the hard drive and the usb key drive is #going to show up as "disk0: BIOS Drive C," but I was #wondering why the disk slices/partition letters for #the USB key don't #show up when I boot from it. Or #even when I boot from the HD and use the loader #prompt? # Again just to quickly restate the problem, when # booting from the USB key, the BTX loader hangs, and # after about 5 minutes I get the loader prompt. The # loader apparently can't find the kernel. When #booting normally I have double checked that the #bsdlabels, filesystems, and required files are at #least present on the key. # I'll keep learning the intimate details of various #config files, and loader commands, and post back if I #find a solution. Thanks again for any bits of know #how you send my way. -Fred ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/