On Sunday 09 March 2008 09:07:03 am Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:44:50 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your boot0cfg line to reinstall the boot0 MBR looks fine, but I don't
use boot0 myself (I prefer to go right into boot2/loader).
I used 'fdisk
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:30:19AM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
On Sunday 09 March 2008 09:07:03 am Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:44:50 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your boot0cfg line to reinstall the boot0 MBR looks fine, but I don't
use
I generated an USB key with NanoBSD using the last btx.S 1.46 from current. I
tested it on 2 brand new supermicro servers that did not boot with the
revision 1.44.
It works perfectly !! Thank you very much !
It now works also on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p. Excellent job !
Le Monday 10 March
On Sunday 09 March 2008 09:07:03 am Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:44:50 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your boot0cfg line to reinstall the boot0 MBR looks fine, but I don't
use boot0 myself (I prefer to go right into boot2/loader).
I used 'fdisk -B da0'
On Friday 07 March 2008 06:40:04 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote:
Try this instead:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch
Hi John,
I've encounted way too many
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:09:51 -0400
John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You haven't updated boot2 (via bsdlabel -B) which sits in between
boot0/mbr and /boot/loader.
That was it - nice!
Booting from usb now works, even on my troublesome Acer laptop[1]
(Aspire 5672). I put up a dmesg
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:44:50 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To quote lolcats: yr doin it wrong.
Thanks for confirming that. :-)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html
Well, I followed the right steps to rebuild the boot blocks,
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:44:50 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your boot0cfg line to reinstall the boot0 MBR looks fine, but I don't
use boot0 myself (I prefer to go right into boot2/loader).
I used 'fdisk -B da0' to install /boot/mbr to the disk for testing.
When I now boot the
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 09:13:12AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested
the howto from
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:44:50 -0800
Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Your boot0cfg line to reinstall the boot0 MBR looks fine, but I
don't use boot0 myself (I prefer to go right into boot2/loader).
I used 'fdisk -B da0' to install
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:13:12 -0500
John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try this instead:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch
On 7.0-stable:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uname -a
FreeBSD kg-i82.kg4.no 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #1: Sun Mar 2
01:18:27 CET 2008 [EMAIL
On 2008-03-08 13:16, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
I have btx.S revision:
* $FreeBSD: src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S,v 1.44 2006/12/06 17:45:35
jhb Exp $
Is the patch supposed to work on that one?
No, update it to 1.45 (=HEAD) and then apply the patch, that's much
easier.
On 2008-03-07 23:51, Dimitry Andric wrote:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch
Might it not be a nice idea to put out a RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_0 bootonly
CD image with this patch applied? I'm sure many people won't be able to
build this themselves, but they could just download
On Friday 07 March 2008 02:18:42 pm John Nielsen wrote:
On Friday 07 March 2008 09:13:12 am John Baldwin wrote:
On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also
tested
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:23:30 +0100
Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, update it to 1.45 (=HEAD) and then apply the patch, that's much
easier.
Yes, that worked better - the patch applied cleanly, amd I could
rebuild the loader.
Here is how I did the rebuilding (all this done on
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:11:54 -0500
John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Success! I was able to boot my laptop from my USB stick built with
the btx_real patch (after I modified hunk 1 to work with the 7-STABLE
sources). Using the same stick on a different (Acer) laptop I was
Interesting.
On Saturday 08 March 2008 04:29:25 pm Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:11:54 -0500
John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Success! I was able to boot my laptop from my USB stick built with
the btx_real patch (after I modified hunk 1 to work with the 7-STABLE
sources). Using
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:21:45PM +0100, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 14:23:30 +0100
Dimitry Andric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No, update it to 1.45 (=HEAD) and then apply the patch, that's much
easier.
Yes, that worked better - the patch applied cleanly, amd I could
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested
the howto from
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u
sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3 FreeBSD release which boots on my pc but
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:17AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested
the howto from
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 10:49:17AM +0100, Miroslav Lachman wrote:
I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all systems
works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later stage.
Uh, no. amd64 kernels rely on information that only the loader supplies,
such as the
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
I think you can use GRUB, because it is used in stage where all
systems works the same way and amd64 kernel will be booted in later
stage.
All of what you've said is correct. I'm not sure who's having
problems with GRUB on USB sticks, because
On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested
the howto from
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u
sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3
Vincent Mialon wrote:
The boot selector is shown and I can choose between the two images that
nanobsd generated. When it times out BTX crash with very fast scrolling
lines. When I shutdown I can see BTX Halted with processor registers
written on the screen. I tried different ways to bypass
On Friday 07 March 2008 09:13:12 am John Baldwin wrote:
On Thursday 06 March 2008 07:29:40 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested
the howto from
On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote:
Try this instead:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch
Hi John,
I've encounted way too many machines already with BIOSes that clash with
the regular btx loader... :(
Might it not be a nice idea to put out a RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_0
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:51:49PM +0100, Dimitry Andric wrote:
On 2008-03-07 15:13, John Baldwin wrote:
Try this instead:
http://people.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/btx_real.patch
Hi John,
I've encounted way too many machines already with BIOSes that clash with
the regular btx
On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I want to use nanobsd to generate optimized FreeBSD-7.0-release
images on USB
pen drive. I generated images with nanobsd. It works on a standard
pc with an
old Celeron 2.4Ghz but on a brand new supermicro X7SBi with a Core 2
Quad it
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Vincent Mialon wrote:
I tested various options in boot0cfg with no sucess. I also tested
the howto from
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-u
sb-stick-episode-2 with a 6.3 FreeBSD release which boots on my pc but
doesn't boot on my supermicro
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