I thought I'd try this on a box I'm trying to prep as a NAS, since
Illumos doesn't seem to recognise the Marvell ethernet.
The box has one of the new AMD E350 chips etc. Drives 0 to 3 are SATA
drives, drive 4 is the eSATA drive for boot. I have a USB DVD reader,
which has boot priority - normally this system does not have a dvd.
Mandrive boots OK and sees all the hardware. Illumos was fine except for
the ethernet.
On boot I get:
CD Loader 1.2
Building the boot loader arguments
Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... File not found
Looking up /boot/loader... File not found
Boot failed
A FreeBSD 8.2 'boot only' disk got me to the point where it had
initalised the disk slices and wanted to connect to an FTP source.
Which it couldn't see - not sure why yet. DHCP had configured it OK and
a Mandrive live disk was fine including surfing the web etc.
Anyhow - my concern in this report is whether the Beta 3 disk is loading
USB mass storage drivers and doing what it needs to boot from a USB drive.
James
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