From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 7 00:30:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCB51065672 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:30:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A70A8FC15 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2008 00:29:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m270ToUK041872 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:59:50 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 10:59:40 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> In-Reply-To: <200803061742.34291.vincent@netaktiv.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1661335.LirkgFFuqS"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200803071059.48837.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Vincent Mialon , tech@gitoyen.net Subject: Re: BTX on USB pen drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:30:00 -0000 --nextPart1661335.LirkgFFuqS Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote: > 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-u >sb-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. I wanted to make a USB flash drive based installer for FreeBSD but=20 unfortunately BTX seems to have issues that make it difficult to do=20 reliably :( Here are 2 patches I tried.. http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch They improved things but I still found a number of systems where BTX=20 would spin dumping register info so fast I couldn't read it (or take a=20 photo..). Unfortunately I have no idea how you'd debug this sort of thing, it's=20 too much like DOS programming for me :) =46WIW when it did work it was great :) I used FreeSBIE as my base - it=20 has stuff to build USB images in CVS (v2). http://www.freesbie.org/ I don't know if it's possible to use GRUB or something like that instead=20 of BTX.. I have no experience with it, but I would be very interested=20 if it did work (although since GRUB is i386 only and I use amd64=20 systems that's another hurdle..) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1661335.LirkgFFuqS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBH0Ix85ZPcIHs/zowRAmZ+AKCMkJ89tLE+qKtBj/u84YYbNNfQYQCgm0ba xGSLcqK+tocQEC4wjXe/mco= =UBrn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1661335.LirkgFFuqS--