From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 13:26:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C15E016A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:26:29 +0000 (GMT) Received: from av1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D736543D45 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:26:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from martin@gneto.com) Received: by av1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id F286D37F17; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:26:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net [81.228.8.92]) by av1-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E19F437EE0; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:26:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.2.10] (h118n1fls31o985.telia.com [213.65.16.118]) by smtp4-1-sn2.hy.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1620737E4E; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:26:01 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <40D19BE9.2090802@gneto.com> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:26:01 +0200 From: Martin Nilsson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: sv, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: avleeuwen@piwebs.com References: <25271.212.83.93.49.1087477105.squirrel@winston.piwebs.com> In-Reply-To: <25271.212.83.93.49.1087477105.squirrel@winston.piwebs.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Loader failure when booting from CompactFlash X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 13:26:29 -0000 avleeuwen@piwebs.com wrote: > I'm trying to boot a compact -CURRENT installation from a CompactFlash > disk on a Lex Light mini system (see www.lex.com.tw). I've installed ThinBSD (which is based on 5.2.1) on a Lex Light and it works. > If I boot from a hard drive, it works fine, but when I boot from the > CompactFlash, it crashes immediately when attempting to start the loader. > It gives an error message, but the system immediately restarts, so I can't > read it. The CompactFlash disk boots fine in a completely different > system. How have you formatted (slices/labels) the flash? I was unable to get it to boot if I did it in another computer with a 7in1 cardreader.. I had to boot on a FreeBSD CD in the lex and run sysinstall from there. (CD was connected via USB). /Martin