USB INSTALL SCRIPTS
regis505
regis505 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 07:42:00 PST 2009
Just want to say that it does the same to me. The script works great but it
stops at the same place:
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
I hope there is a solution because I find the process really cool.
Regis
PeterSteele wrote:
>
> The script runs fine, but the resulting USB drive won't boot. It hangs on
>
> Feb 25 19:27:50 kernel: atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port
> 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
>
> every time. I tried different systems as well. There is no error, it just
> hangs. Any idea what this is about? I did a web search but could fine
> anything describing this kind of hang.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sergio de Almeida Lenzi" <lenzi at k1.com.br>
> To: "Formula 1" <btccrules at yahoo.co.uk>, "freebsd-questions"
> <questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 6:18:22 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: USB INSTALL SCRIPTS
>
> Ok...
> the scripts are at:
> http://dist.k1.com.br/scripts/baselist_amd64
> http://dist.k1.com.br/scripts/baselist_i386
> http://dist.k1.com.br/scripts/makebootdisk
> http://dist.k1.com.br/scripts/zfsetup
>
> install these scripts on /root
>
> makebootdisk:
> formats the disk (or usb stick) at da0,da1...) make a bsdlabel on it
> and using the baselist file, copies the running system files into the
> USB
> it will work on FreeBSD versions greater 7.0
> this way the usb is bootable, have a filesystem on it.
> the same root password...
> you can fix the files /etc/rc.conf, /boot/loader.conf in the usb
> filesystem in
> order for it to boot from your kernel.
> remeber to check for an "a" partition on your usb stick
>
> the script needs to have access to install bash (pkg_add -r bash) so it
> needs internet of a package repository with bash in it.
>
> Once boot from your usb stick, you can do the same procedure to
> transport the running system to another disk
> if you intend to make a zfs running filesytem on the target disk (hd)
> make the disklabel (bsdlabel) this way
> a: 1gb 16 unused
> b: 4gb * swap
> d: * * unused
> that is:
> a partition 1gb at offset 16
> b swap partition 4gb after partion A
> d: the rest of the disk (this will hold the zpool).
>
> the makebootdisk will install a running system on A (about 300mb...)
>
>
> ZFSETUP
> is a script that, when boot from the hd created with makebootdisk
> moves the running system (booted from "a" partition) to the the zfspool
> created, in the "d" partition mentioned above..
> it edits the loader.conf in order to boot on zfs.. in order to boot
> from
>
> After that, you are running on ZFS...
>
> Sergio
>
>
>
>
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