From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 03:36:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21704106564A for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:36:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from mail-03.name-services.com (mail-03.name-services.com [69.64.155.195]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AC48FC16 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:36:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd1@a1poweruser.com) Received: from [10.0.10.6] ([202.69.174.106]) by mail-03.name-services.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 19:36:52 -0800 Message-ID: <496EAF5F.4080207@a1poweruser.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 11:37:03 +0800 From: Fbsd1 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian McCann References: <2b5f066d0901081136n257f114akb9ebd628fd6f93a2@mail.gmail.com> <49671922.8040906@snaffler.net> <2b5f066d0901090709m6c1000efi7d411800f16cf732@mail.gmail.com> <2b5f066d0901090743v494c4c08ufeeec2dec319d0f0@mail.gmail.com> <2b5f066d0901141102m59645d64i4bb7a0c6589539de@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d0901141102m59645d64i4bb7a0c6589539de@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Jan 2009 03:36:52.0330 (UTC) FILETIME=[8163BCA0:01C976C2] X-Sender: fbsd1@a1poweruser.com Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB Install 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: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:36:55 -0000 Brian McCann wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:43 AM, Brian McCann wrote: >>> Well this just got a LOT more frustrating and interesting. I made a >>> stick following those directions using a new stick...worked fine, >>> booted off of it...did some work on it...somehow the filesystem got >>> very corrupted in one of various things I was doing to it (I think it >>> was when I accidentially unplugged it before running a sync and >>> umount). I figured it'd just be easier to start over and build it >>> again from scratch. So...I try to newfs it ("newfs -U -L FreeBSDStick >>> /dev/da1s1a", and newfs fails with "cg 0: bad magic number" . Now I'm >>> really getting pissed. So...I run a dd ("dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 >>> bs=1m"), and do the whole thing over...here's the console output: >>> >>> umm# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1m >>> dd: /dev/da1: short write on character device >>> dd: /dev/da1: end of device >>> 3830+0 records in >>> 3829+1 records out >>> 4016045568 bytes transferred in 4324.380202 secs (928699 bytes/sec) >>> umm# fdisk -BI /dev/da1 >>> ******* Working on device /dev/da1 ******* >>> fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found >>> fdisk: Geom not found: "da1" >>> umm# bsdlabel -B -w da1s1 >>> umm# newfs -U -L FreeBSDStick /dev/da1s1a >>> /dev/da1s1a: 3827.9MB (7839640 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 >>> using 21 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. >>> with soft updates >>> super-block backups (for fsck -b #) at: >>> 160, 376512, 752864, 1129216, 1505568, 1881920, 2258272, 2634624, >>> 3010976, 3387328, 3763680, 4140032, 4516384, 4892736, >>> 5269088, 5645440, 6021792, 6398144, 6774496, 7150848, 7527200 >>> cg 0: bad magic number >>> >>> So now I'm getting seriously ticked off. Anyone have any ideas what >>> the heck could be causing this? This thumb drive was working fine >>> with FreeBSD! I'm trying a dd on a thumb drive w/o specifying a block >>> size / BS...we'll see what that does...but I'm still open to >>> suggestions since I'm just about out of ideas. >>> >>> Thanks! >>> --Brian >>> >>> >> To the list of things tried...add formatting the USB stick with the >> HDD Low Level Format Tool >> (http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/). >> Still no joy... >> > > For those following along at home, I found the cause of my problems. > It apparently all came down to the machine I was making the stick on. > Any machine that had an Intel SCB2 motherboard in it, would screw it > up. I switched to using a different & newer machine, re-did the > directions at http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 > , and all my problems with it went away. YAY!!! > > Thanks to all those who provided input. Long live FreeBSD! > --Brian > Your link to the instructions is dead.