From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 31 17:38:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B06FB16AAAC for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 17:38:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from mail.mgedv.net (mail.mgedv.net [81.223.168.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422AF43D76 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 17:38:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nospam@mgedv.net) Received: from metis (sslint.my.loop [1.1.1.1]) by mail.my.loop (mgedv) with ESMTP id 3BAA445749 for ; Wed, 31 May 2006 19:38:08 +0200 (CEST) From: "no@spam@mgedv.net" To: Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 19:38:29 +0200 Message-ID: <000001c684d9$0791c080$01010101@avalon.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcaE2QZegp08yaNFQ3GpufuqsnM9EA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 Subject: HELP! booting usb-flashdisk fails 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: Wed, 31 May 2006 17:38:37 -0000 whenever i boot from my self-created bootable usb-stick, it fails with the following error from boot2: --------------------------------------------- Invalid label Invalid label No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386 boot Default: 0:fd(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel Invalid Label No /boot/kernel/kernel --------------------------------------------- i also tried the paths 0:da(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel without success. hardware used: (FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE): Motherboard: GigaByte GA-8SIMLP Flash-Disk0: Kingston Data Traveler 2.0 256MB Flash-Disk1: Corsair Water-Resist Flash 512MB created a bootable usb-drive using: fdisk -BI /dev/da0 bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 newfs -m 0 -o space -n /dev/da0s1a then i installed the base-package and the GENERIC kernel into /dev/da0s1a, and ensured that the kernel is really to be found at /boot/kernel/kernel. i also tried this with the same errors: bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da0 newfs -m 0 -o space -n /dev/da0a (os installation the same as above) i tried this with both usb-sticks, both of them fail. trying them on a HP-Server works perfectly to the root- login. the bios supports booting from: USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM and USB-HDD. i tried all of them. also, i set the boot-priorities to only boot HDD-0 and removed all other drives. obviously, no success. btw, booting from a real hdd/cdrom works. any really smart ideas on this?