Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:48:31 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Problem Message-ID: <A564353B-8DAC-485B-8FFF-0EBD163593FA@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301292309190.94153@fledge.watson.org> References: <95407B50-A296-4012-A2C4-014321C48C74@lafn.org> <20130129121852.03538e59@papi> <BC61770C-D7E5-41A4-8B63-1914DEA0D804@lafn.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1301292309190.94153@fledge.watson.org>
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On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, doug@safeport.com wrote: >=20 > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: >=20 >> On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: >>=20 >>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 >>> Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: >>>=20 >>>> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. = The >>>> bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD = drive. >>>> It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader >>>> message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, = time >>>> the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 >>>> times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for >>>> another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more = happens. >>>>=20 >>>> The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external >>>> drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and >>>> temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I >>>> would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will >>>> become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable >>>> option. >=20 > What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have = built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an = external hard drive? 9.1 release - Generic. Basically the disk1. Don't have an extra = external drive. >=20 > Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on = the drive, and put it back. =46rom that point on you should be able to = use the network to upgrade. I have done that before and it does work. However, with the various = changes to the system, the root partition I had previously built that = way for 8.2 is just not large enough for 9.1. Also, I wanted to go to a = single partition (the 9.1 default). Probably freebsd-update will take = me through major releases after this, but I was hoping for a better = solution so I could avoid having to transport the machine a long way = twice to be able to update it. >=20 >=20
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