Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:08:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: WaW <wawaka@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Can't boot freebsd from usb device - Invalid slice Message-ID: <200706130908.40022.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <9fce1cdb0706120932v21d918fbsa3ee9e4b79a1eb28@mail.gmail.com> References: <9fce1cdb0706120932v21d918fbsa3ee9e4b79a1eb28@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wednesday 13 June 2007 02:02, WaW wrote:
> I'm trying to install freebsd 6.2-STABLE to usb device. After
> installation done successfully and reboot i getting messages like
> this:
>
> Invalid slice
> Invalid slice
> No /boot/loader
>
> FreeBSD/i386 boot
> Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
> boot:
How did you install?
=46reeSBIE does the following and works..
fdisk -BI ${DEVICE} >> ${LOGFILE} 2>&1
bsdlabel -w -B ${DEVICE}s1 >> ${LOGFILE} 2>&1
newfs -b 4096 -f 512 -i 8192 -L ${FREESBIE_LABEL} -O1 -U ${DEVICE}s1a >> ${=
LOGFILE} 2>&1
mount ${DEVICE}s1a ${TMPDIR}
echo "Writing files..."
cd ${CLONEDIR}
find . -print -depth | cpio -dump -v ${TMPDIR} >> ${LOGFILE} 2>&1
echo "/dev/ufs/${FREESBIE_LABEL} / ufs ro 1 1" > ${TMPDIR}/etc/fstab
umount ${TMPDIR}
Which works for me.
I have had difficulty partitioning the flash drive though, either it doesn'=
t=20
work properly in Windows XP, or doesn't boot (or both)
I don't think it is related to loader limitations as Jeremy alludes too sin=
ce
it doesn't get as far as the loader, and there is no crash. Although maybe
it is since it gets to boot2 (which uses BTX)..
Also GRUB only works with i386 :(
The patch for BTX is here..
http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx/
You need to install a new loader and reinstall boot2 (bsdlabel -B) after
you've built it.
=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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