From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 27 15:05:06 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 D88FC16A40F for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:05:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FEEB13C487 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:05:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 18342 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2006 15:05:06 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 27 Dec 2006 15:05:06 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id CDEF62842F; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:05:04 -0500 (EST) To: "Steve Franks" References: <539c60b90612221350t77ca840u56ddd68943a8b57c@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:05:04 -0500 In-Reply-To: <539c60b90612221350t77ca840u56ddd68943a8b57c@mail.gmail.com> (Steve Franks's message of "Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:50:46 -0700") Message-ID: <44wt4dxtun.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: FreeBSD Users Questions Subject: Re: freebsd on i386-type internet appliance and cf card X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: FreeBSD Users Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:05:07 -0000 "Steve Franks" writes: > 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? It doesn't sound like the system hardware is relevant; I think the card isn't sufficiently installed to boot anywhere. Also, you should be able to do without the bootloader menu (although it shouldn't hurt anything). Perhaps it's just a matter of the root device being wrong? You might need to set root_disk_unit (or rootdev or currdev) for the loader.