Re: boot2 can't boot from USB?

2007-03-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:30:45PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:16:16AM +0100, Fluffles wrote: If so, i may have found some bugs / problems with boot2. Long ago i tried to make a bootable USB pendrive with FreeBSD 6.1 on it. It failed to boot with the message

boot2 can't boot from USB?

2007-03-15 Thread Fluffles
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Barry Pederson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any hope for someday optionally using ZFS as a root filesystem? For that to be possible, both /boot/boot2 and /boot/loader need to understand ZFS well enough to read files from it. There isn't much room

Re: boot2 can't boot from USB?

2007-03-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Fluffles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is offtopic. Am i right to assume that: - boot0 and boot1 both read from the disk via BIOS - boot2 tries to read from the disk directly, without BIOS ? No, only the kernel contains drivers that are independent from the BIOS. Everything else

Re: boot2 can't boot from USB?

2007-03-15 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:16:16AM +0100, Fluffles wrote: If so, i may have found some bugs / problems with boot2. Long ago i tried to make a bootable USB pendrive with FreeBSD 6.1 on it. It failed to boot with the message invalid slice and i got a prompt like: I have worked a lot with getting