From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 13:45:59 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A093BD20 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:45:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "wonkity.com", Issuer "wonkity.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 471D0206E for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:45:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id s6UDjupn049469 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:45:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/Submit) with ESMTP id s6UDju9E049466; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:45:56 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:45:56 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Brian Wood Subject: Re: Problem booting In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20140728201316.GA75558@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140728232101.GA1425@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729070805.GA2594@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729185337.GA5146@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729204442.GA9077@slackbox.erewhon.home> <20140729232303.GA86963@slackbox.erewhon.home> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (BSF 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 30 Jul 2014 07:45:56 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 13:45:59 -0000 On Tue, 29 Jul 2014, Brian Wood wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 10.0 memstick. The contents of /dev after I pick > the Live CD are almost identical to what they were with PCBSD. > There's an additional da4a that I guess has to do with the memstick. > I don't really see any other differences. da4a is the memstick itself. Ordinary drives are going to be listed as ad* (old form), ada* (new form), or da* (USB and SCSI). Use gpart show to see the partitioning of all active disks. > I tried the same devfs commands as above and the results are the > same as above. I may try to install from the memstick, but would > then want to figure out how to get a desktop going. Thanks. It should not be necessary to modify devfs or other settings. On the other hand, this could be some machine with a weird BIOS (Lenovo and HP), odd server hardware (HP/Compaq, or as I call it, "Chompaq"), or just general proprietary "because we can" weirdness (Dell). To show existing disks, try just ls /dev/ad* /dev/ada* /dev/da*