Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:47:18 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> Cc: Michael Voorhis <mvoorhis@cs.wpi.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Subject: Re: 8.2-BETA1 sysinstall: No USB devices found Message-ID: <C9A977A0-B95B-4AD3-9EE0-A9094BDAB9C3@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20101213033603.GA91170@icarus.home.lan> References: <AANLkTi=QBayVHr6YG4jCEv5H-Qo71Ztv1An0DKGYOV4R@mail.gmail.com> <20101212151704.197dddee@core.draftnet> <AANLkTing5fjhL_Vzqh4ppbep_A_oQLDnqkqHn41fL-MC@mail.gmail.com> <4D050197.8010600@cs.wpi.edu> <20101213131456.Y83735@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <20101213033603.GA91170@icarus.home.lan>
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--Apple-Mail-146-377626062 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On 13/12/2010, at 14:06, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > The result: I was able to get things like memtest86+ and DBAN to boot, > and very specific Linux distributions (with a lot of pain), in = addition > to FreeBSD. However, FreeBSD would always fail to find the necessary > installation packages/sources/etc. due to "how" the whole booting > process above works. I had to spend a lot of time messing around with > MEMLINUX and the "map --hook rootnoverify (0xff)" parameters and = similar > whatnots: For just FreeBSD I have used syslinux to boot an MFS and then have = sysinstall read off the USB stick as a hard disk. I submitted a few patches and they're committed now so you can probably = do it out of the box. The only pain is generating the MFS but that isn't _too_ tricky. It would be nice if it was generated during the normal 'make release' = though (hint hint) Also, I tried a minimal MFS and then loading the kernel directly from = FAT32 using the loader but I could never get it to "see" the FAT32 even = though by my reading of the code it should work.. -- 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 --Apple-Mail-146-377626062--
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