On Friday 07 March 2008 09:13:12 am John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > 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 > > unfortunately BTX seems to have issues that make it difficult to do > > reliably :( > > > > Here are 2 patches I tried.. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/realbtx > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_crx.patch > > Try this instead: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch > > (btx_crx has been in the base system for a while FWIW). This is > somewhat similar to kib's patch but fixes at least one bug I found in > kib's patch (and uses some slightly different approaches in a few > places).
I have a laptop that does the BTX register-spin thing when booting from USB even if I use Grub, so I'll give your patch a try. The first hunk doesn't apply cleanly on today's 7-STABLE sources--the new page tables entry at line 29 throws it off. I applied that hunk manually and am rebuilding now. FWIW the laptop is an Intel-based Gateway M465-E, and it boots from (internal) CD just fine. I don't currently have space or a partition on the internal hard drive for a FreeBSD install, hence the USB stick. JN _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
