From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 22 21:50:48 2006 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 B9C8416A492 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E1C13C441 for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:50:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bahamasfranks@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x37so3320337nfc for ; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:50:47 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:x-google-sender-auth; b=GhkBUzLBELbgJkEY9z4N5CBHZCS/VXzHgtc+lNjvSgnFvvyrJxLmGSVQFUg/kmsAwtpyCaBlHo2T/DKYbH7VnRinEhX57T0GKMUuwiDcTw8fohJl9odcAftYG8Cocf07oY1AN3USnaUJeHbxLKzaTEvtLlrQtFQMIoc5o7TO7kQ= Received: by 10.82.135.13 with SMTP id i13mr2196837bud.1166824246976; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:50:46 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.176.11 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:50:46 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <539c60b90612221350t77ca840u56ddd68943a8b57c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:50:46 -0700 From: "Steve Franks" Sender: bahamasfranks@gmail.com To: "FreeBSD Users Questions" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Google-Sender-Auth: ae6c811ae6a48064 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: freebsd on i386-type internet appliance and cf card 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: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:50:48 -0000 So, I've installed freebsd on a compact flash card sucessfully in my laptop (or so it looks - sysinstall completes to /dev/ad4, copies everything, no errors, etc) with the regular harddisk removed (for safety, of course). Only it won't boot on the internet appliance when I stick the CF in there (that's it's only supported boot device). I get the F1 - Freebsd bootloader prompt, then nothing more. I let it sit for a good 10 min, just to be sure. It's a i386 compatible processor, and people have sucessfully run at least 3 flavors of linux on it, as well as win98 from what I can glean on the net. If I restart sysinstall, I can see the partition was written, but I can't mount it from a running bsd machine - "incorrect superblock", which I think has to do with the following (aka. all or dd partitions): I tried 'all three' modes of partition - "create", "all", and "DD". Each time sysinstall completes, each time F1 - freebsd, but nothing more. Used 'auto' on the label editor - the defaults seemed reasonable... Thoughts? Thanks, Steve