Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:49:28 +0800 From: Aiza <aiza21@comclark.com> To: Graham Bentley <admin@cpcnw.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD from Compact Flash Message-ID: <4C33C108.9010801@comclark.com> In-Reply-To: <32956318D56C4ECEAE8EBDB86728D3E9@main> References: <32956318D56C4ECEAE8EBDB86728D3E9@main>
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Graham Bentley wrote: > OK I confess that this is associated with FreeNAS however > it seems rather quiet over there on the support forums and I > know there are some knowledgeable BSD people on this > list who may be willing to help on this ... > > Compact Flash: Kingston 4GB 45x Elite Pro [CF/4GB-S] > Target Mainboard: VIA EPIA-V10000 > * I D/L'ed FreeNAS-i386-embedded-0.7.2.5252.img > * I checksumed it with md5sum for WindowsXPP - it matched > * I used physdiskwrite v0.5.2 to write the image to CF on my desktop PC > * I hoooked up the CF to the target mainboard and booted the kernel > Now this is where things go awry .... I end up at this prompt ; > > mountroot> > > I can see the Kinston is ID as ad0 a few lines above at ata0-master. > If I enter ? I get a list of boot devices as follows ; ad0c ad0a ad0 > If I enter; mountroot> ufs:/dev/ad0a I get a 'panic: no init' message > and a reboot ; no other choice of boot device gives any such result. > CF boots perfectly hooked up to my desktop PC. On Via Mainboard > I have tried switching off all IDE 'modes' to zero etc but still no joy. > I tried using the verbose boot option and notice that following the CF > card being ID'ed I get the following ; > > ad0 VIA check1 failed > ad0 Adaptec check1 failed > ad0 LSI (v3) check1 failed > ad0 LSI (v2) check1 failed > ado FreeBSD check1 failed > > Would I be right in thinking that its chipset support for this baord is > whats > preventing access to the root of the OS/FS? > > And if it is, is it possible to add module support somehow? > > Thanks in advance of any help :) > Maybe this will be helpful http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=11715
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