Hi, I'm stuck at 6.6-stable, trying many times in the past to use newer -currents is partially to blame for how I'm in a bad situation.
I'll try to be clear as I can. After the error below, booting gives ERR M. What I'm using. One USB2 flash drive. Booting / off of it. It works fine, but old. One USB2/3 spinning hard drive. 2TB. Never setup to boot from. Using for storage. The a partition has the files to get a boot started. One Laptop spinning HD. The a partition used to boot, has the files but won't boot. I also have a powered USB hub to get enough power for the spinning HD. I have tried using fdisk on laptop and USB2/3 HD. Not helpful. I have tried using installboot on both of those two, but I get cross device install error, which I see is only in i386 installboot in src. I am following installboot manual page. I also read all of the recommended see also man pages. I also burned an install CD and took it just far enough into install to get access to laptop HD, mount /mnt/usr and try installboot from there. Same cross device install error. I'm unsure if I should try a fresh install (backing everything up is a little weird the way I'm running off of three disks. I can do that.) I would like to understand what is causing me to end up at ERR M. I read what causes that error, but I don't know how to fix that. Any advice appreciated. Chris Bennett