Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > The other approach would be to just splat an install CD onto a flash > disk, eg.. > > fdisk -BI /dev/da0 > bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 > newfs -b 4096 -f 512 -i 8192 -O1 -U /dev/da0s1 > mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt > cd /mnt > tar zxf /dev/acd0 > umount /mnt > >

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:58, Vivek Khera wrote: > On May 31, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Thanks so much, now I can have an automated install on a USB stick > > :) > > please, please, please share the recipes to make this. I would love > to omit CD rom drives on my future systems

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 31, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Thanks so much, now I can have an automated install on a USB stick :) please, please, please share the recipes to make this. I would love to omit CD rom drives on my future systems as the only thing i ever use them for is install. als

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:39, Adriaan wrote: > "Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 > mode and we don't emulate enough instructions in vm86 mode for the > Compaq/HP BIOS." > > In another post > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/0287 >7

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:33, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:52, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > - > > > int=000d ... > > > ... > > > BTX halted > > > > You boot from the hard drive, right ? Then, boot2 shall be changed > > too, since it uses btx. You should apply the patch,

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:52, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > > - > > int=000d ... > > ... > > BTX halted > > You boot from the hard drive, right ? Then, boot2 shall be changed > too, since it uses btx. You should apply the patch, build the world, > then install _both_ new boot blocks using bsdl

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Adriaan
On 5/30/07, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: int=000d ... ... BTX halted According to John Baldwin in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028774.html : "Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 mode and we don't emulate eno

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:08, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > The second one is more accurate as I didn't copy it from a blurry > > photo :) > > Could you, please, show the complete output from the boot, including > btx banner ? That's it.. With my i965 system I don't appear to be able to get it to

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> Alas I still get a BTX halted after replacing loader with one from > that URL :( > int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=2aca > eax=0900 ebx=55aa ecx= edx=0180 > esi= edi= ebp=03f0 esp=03da > cs=f000 ds=9e02 es=1400fs= gs=00

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 28 May 2007 13:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Yes, there is also a loader/pxeboot in the same directory. > > As kib@ told me, do not install this loader on your disk > > which may destroy your data. > > I see the binaries, I was thinking of trying one with a USB flash > boot disk, I'll un

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Rong-en Fan wrote: On 5/28/07, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected >> systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I >> spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. > > Ooh a

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-27 Thread Rong-en Fan
On 5/28/07, Daniel O'Connor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected >> systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I >> spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. > > Ooh ahh, please sir, can

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Daniel O'Connor wrote: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. Ooh ahh, please sir, can I have some more^Wit? :) I did some googling.. Is this the patch

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Rong-en Fan
On 5/26/07, Bruce M. Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I believe this is most likely this issue... > http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t3047441.html > > Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( > Forgot to Cc: my reply to the list: k

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 26 May 2007 22:00, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: > Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I believe this is most likely this issue... > > http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t30 > >47441.html > > > > Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( > > Forgot to Cc: my reply to th

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Daniel O'Connor wrote: I believe this is most likely this issue... http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t3047441.html Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( Forgot to Cc: my reply to the list: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 25 May 2007 16:39, Andrei Kolu wrote: > int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=2abf > eax=0300 ebx= ecx=0001 edx=009f > esi=000c edi= ebp= esp=03f6 > cs=f000 ds=3fca es=3fac fs= gs= ss=9e3c > cs:eip=23 0f 01 16 0c 2c 0f 20-c0 0c