Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:40:54 -0300 (BRT) From: "Nenhum_de_Nos" <matheus@eternamente.info> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting from usb hard disk Message-ID: <fd2392216bb33e5b66f8fe79459e45e2.squirrel@cygnus.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Mon, March 23, 2009 07:36, Robert Noland wrote: > So I have my i386 install on a usb hard disk, which I can only boot on > one machine now. The one machine that I can make work has a bios option > that reads "BIOS ehci handoff". This used to work with the old usb > stack. The machines that it doesn't work on, boot the kernel, but fail > to mount root, giving me the forbidding mountroot> prompt, which is > immediately followed by the message saying that da0 is attached. da0 is > however not listed in the available boot devices list. I tried playing > around with the timeout in vfs_mount.c, but that didn't seem to have any > impact. It has been suggested that this may be a "geom" timeout, but I > don't know anything about the boot system really. I had problem a while ago with via mini itx hardware, that was quite close. If I try boot from usb (installed in usb hdd), I get to the point of loader not finding my disk. I then used a small flash disk attached to the ata (44 pin ide) channel and formatted /boot in there. this way I get to the point of mount root you said, and da0 not being alive soon enough to mount root. list disks also couldn't find da0 though. I tried current from that time, and no good. if this is solved, I'll be happy to try whatever patch to current. (as long as I can install it from another box/or its ata channel, as it can't boot vanilla 7.1R) matheus -- We will call you cygnus, The God of balance you shall be
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