With the help of some folks in #freebsd on freenode, I have since been
able to fix this problem. Here is the solution for future reference:
There is a bug in GELI that makes it corrupt data and panic kernels when
certain non-standard settings are used. I had set the GELI sector size
to 8192 an
Hi list
A 2.5" USB hard disk I recently got has been giving me a lot of trouble.
When using the disk, I routinely get panics or random data corruption.
This happens with two separate machines, both running 6-STABLE. I found
that one file residing on the disk, when read, always make
> A new, replacement disk drive is now installed, and is
> FreeBSD only. It has the standard FBSD boot loader.
> When I power on the laptop, I get the ususal F1/F2/F3
> and F5 prompts (three partitions on the internal disk plus
> the USB/Firewire disk).
Hm! Looks like boot
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 04:10:41PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote:
>
> Yup. I want my mbr on internal hdd and another grub on external
> usb drive to boot linux. Simply, to let bios to choose from two
> equal disks. Possible?
>
Mostly. :-) I have the original disk from my laptop in
and USB/Fi
> It works like this:
> (usb hard drive connected to machine)
> - you boot machine (on some machines you can press a special key to
> bring up a bios boot menu)
> - you select usb hard drive from bios boot menu
> - bios loads boot loader (either Grub, Lilo, FreeBSD boot loader,
> or whatever
On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:40:13 +0100
Zoran Kolic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is not strictly "stable", unless I make a mistake and shoot
> myself in the foot.
> I have 6.2 amd64 with mobo asus k8n nforce3 250. This box I'd like to
> use as host for usb hdd, that should contain linux install (d
Dear all!
This is not strictly "stable", unless I make a mistake and shoot myself
in the foot.
I have 6.2 amd64 with mobo asus k8n nforce3 250. This box I'd like to
use as host for usb hdd, that should contain linux install (debian 4.0,
when comes out). Two worlds have not to interfare in any meani
