Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:42:34 +0100 From: Vincent Mialon <vincent@netaktiv.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: tech@gitoyen.net Subject: BTX on USB pen drive Message-ID: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com>
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Hello My name is Vincent Mialon and I'm in a six months placement at Gitoyen http://www.gitoyen.net/ (a small opensource-based LIR) Gitoyen is a Local Internet Registry. The current routing solution is mainly based on linux with quagga running ospf and bgp. All routers runs linux from USB flash drives but we think that FreeBSD could be mutch better with OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD. My mission at Gitoyen is to be able to route about 2Gbps at 190 kilo packets per second using opensource softwares... I want to use nanobsd to generate optimized FreeBSD-7.0-release images on USB pen drive. I generated images with nanobsd. It works on a standard pc with an old Celeron 2.4Ghz but on a brand new supermicro X7SBi with a Core 2 Quad it doesn't boot. The boot selector is shown and I can choose between the two images that nanobsd generated. When it times out BTX crash with very fast scrolling lines. When I shutdown I can see "BTX Halted" with processor registers written on the screen. I tried different ways to bypass this error using grub but when the kernel is launched, grub (or the kernel) crashes (even with a GENERIC kernel). (I updated the motherboard BIOS but no change occured except ACPI fixes.) The motherboard works perfectly on FreeBSD from a sata drive. Linux 2.6.24 boots with no problem on a USB flashdrive. I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested the howto from http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3 FreeBSD release which boots on my pc but doesn't boot on my supermicro server. Do you have any idea or pointer that may help me find the way to boot this usb drive ? I may file a bug report if you want. Best regards Vincent
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