On 02/01/13 11:03, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
>> questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Aitken
>> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 12:55 PM
>> To: FreeBSD Mailing List
>> Subject: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues
>>
>> I've got a Crucial m4 SSD which needs a firmware upgrade.
>> From the Crucial website I've downloaded an image which supposedly is an
>> iso image bootable from either CD or a usb stick.
>>
>> Since the fbsd install images are different for booting from cd and usb
> flash
>> drives (the flash image is significantly larger), I'm wondering if there's
>> anything I need to be aware of when attempting this.
>>
>> I tried copying the ssd firmware update image to a flash drive using:
>> dd if=firmwareupdate.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=64k which seemed to work.
>>
>> However, when I attempt to boot the device, BIOS complains about it not
>> being bootable and says to fix it or select something else which is
> bootable.
>>
>> I know the drive can be bootable because I used it for the fbsd 9.1 usb
> boot
>> image and it worked fine.
>>
>> The documentation for the SSD firmware upgrade says "Create a Bootable
>> USB Drive"
>> with the following steps (summarized here, no real content omitted):
>>
>> 1. Start with a newly formatted USB drive
>> 2. Open a USB installer program. If you don't have one, you may
> download
>> a free one such as Universal USB Installer...
>> 3. If you are using the Universal USB Installer, then:
>> 3a. At the Step 1 drop down box, scroll to the bottom and select
>> the last option: Try Unlisted Linux ISO
>> 3b. Go to step 2 (in the pgm) and browse to the firmware ISO that you
>> downloaded earlier
>> 3c. Go to step 3 (in the pgm) and select the flash drive on which you
>> want to install the ISO
>> 3d. Click the Create button and click Format E:\Drive
>> 3e. A sequence of screens will appear and disappear...
>>
>> The above is all highly confusing to me, as it's not clear who's doing
> what.
>> I'm guessing the "Universal Installer Program" actually writes a boot
> block
>> and then the bootable image someplace beyond that, and the iso image
>> supplied is not really a complete bootable image for a flash drive -- it's
>> missing the boot blocks.
>>
>> Can anyone suggest a way to create a bootable flash drive using this
> image?
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>
>
>
> Please see the below site for a script to convert the .ISO into a .IMG that
> can be dd written to the thumb drive
>
> http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4361
Thanks, that was a help.
However, when it boots, I get the following:
No /boot/loader
FreeBSD/x86 boot
Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
boot:
I can mount the thumb drive as a ufs file system, which looks like this:
/boot/
solinux/
boot.cat
boot2880.img
bootmsg.txt
isolinux.bin
isolinux.cfg
memdisk
splash.lss
/legal.txt
/revision.txt
Assuming this is all good as a stand-alone linux image, what do I need to
enter at the boot: prompt to get it to boot? It's not clear to me what the
code to be booted is.
The isolinux.cfg file looks like this:
PROMPT 1
TIMEOUT 30
DEFAULT default
DISPLAY bootMsg.txt
LABEL default
KERNEL memdisk
append initrd=boot2880.img floppy raw
LABEL alternate
KERNEL memdisk
append initrd=boot2880.img floppy
Thanks for any hints...
Gary
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