Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-10-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Daniel O'Connor wrote: The other approach would be to just splat an install CD onto a flash disk, eg.. fdisk -BI /dev/da0 bsdlabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 newfs -b 4096 -f 512 -i 8192 -O1 -U /dev/da0s1 mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt cd /mnt tar zxf /dev/acd0 umount /mnt ...

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-06-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 01 June 2007 04:58, Vivek Khera wrote: On May 31, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Thanks so much, now I can have an automated install on a USB stick :) please, please, please share the recipes to make this. I would love to omit CD rom drives on my future systems as the

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:39, Adriaan wrote: Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 mode and we don't emulate enough instructions in vm86 mode for the Compaq/HP BIOS. In another post http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/0287 73.html

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-31 Thread Vivek Khera
On May 31, 2007, at 1:49 AM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Thanks so much, now I can have an automated install on a USB stick :) please, please, please share the recipes to make this. I would love to omit CD rom drives on my future systems as the only thing i ever use them for is install.

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:08, Kostik Belousov wrote: The second one is more accurate as I didn't copy it from a blurry photo :) Could you, please, show the complete output from the boot, including btx banner ? That's it.. With my i965 system I don't appear to be able to get it to boot

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Adriaan
On 5/30/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: int=000d ... ... BTX halted According to John Baldwin in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-September/028774.html : Because other OS's run the BIOS in real mode, and we run it in vm86 mode and we don't emulate

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:52, Kostik Belousov wrote: - int=000d ... ... BTX halted You boot from the hard drive, right ? Then, boot2 shall be changed too, since it uses btx. You should apply the patch, build the world, then install _both_ new boot blocks using bsdlabel, and

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thursday 31 May 2007 12:33, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 22:52, Kostik Belousov wrote: - int=000d ... ... BTX halted You boot from the hard drive, right ? Then, boot2 shall be changed too, since it uses btx. You should apply the patch, build the

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Alas I still get a BTX halted after replacing loader with one from that URL :( int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=2aca eax=0900 ebx=55aa ecx= edx=0180 esi= edi= ebp=03f0 esp=03da cs=f000 ds=9e02 es=1400fs= gs=

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 28 May 2007 13:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Yes, there is also a loader/pxeboot in the same directory. As kib@ told me, do not install this loader on your disk which may destroy your data. I see the binaries, I was thinking of trying one with a USB flash boot disk, I'll unplug my

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Daniel O'Connor wrote: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. Ooh ahh, please sir, can I have some more^Wit? :) I did some googling.. Is this the

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-27 Thread Rong-en Fan
On 5/28/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. Ooh ahh, please sir, can I have

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Rong-en Fan wrote: On 5/28/07, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with affected systems of mine, however, the code has not yet made it into CVS. I spliced it into a 6.2 miniboot ISO and it worked. Ooh ahh,

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 25 May 2007 16:39, Andrei Kolu wrote: int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=2abf eax=0300 ebx= ecx=0001 edx=009f esi=000c edi= ebp= esp=03f6 cs=f000 ds=3fca es=3fac fs= gs= ss=9e3c cs:eip=23 0f 01 16 0c 2c 0f 20-c0 0c 01

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Daniel O'Connor wrote: I believe this is most likely this issue... http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t3047441.html Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( Forgot to Cc: my reply to the list: kib@ has real mode BTX code which appears to work with

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Saturday 26 May 2007 22:00, Bruce M. Simpson wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: I believe this is most likely this issue... http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t30 47441.html Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( Forgot to Cc: my reply to the list:

Re: Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-26 Thread Rong-en Fan
On 5/26/07, Bruce M. Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: I believe this is most likely this issue... http://www.nabble.com/BTX-issues-when-booting-from-a-USB-CD-ROM-t3047441.html Alas no solution yet as far as I am aware :( Forgot to Cc: my reply to the list: kib@ has

Unable to install FreeBSD from external USB cdrom

2007-05-25 Thread Andrei Kolu
Bootloader gave me this error message: --- BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Consoles: internal video/keyboard _ int=000d err= efl=00030002 eip=2abf eax=0300 ebx= ecx=0001 edx=009f esi=000c