Booting from usb hard disk
Nenhum_de_Nos
matheus at eternamente.info
Mon Mar 23 15:41:04 PDT 2009
On Mon, March 23, 2009 07:36, Robert Noland wrote:
> So I have my i386 install on a usb hard disk, which I can only boot on
> one machine now. The one machine that I can make work has a bios option
> that reads "BIOS ehci handoff". This used to work with the old usb
> stack. The machines that it doesn't work on, boot the kernel, but fail
> to mount root, giving me the forbidding mountroot> prompt, which is
> immediately followed by the message saying that da0 is attached. da0 is
> however not listed in the available boot devices list. I tried playing
> around with the timeout in vfs_mount.c, but that didn't seem to have any
> impact. It has been suggested that this may be a "geom" timeout, but I
> don't know anything about the boot system really.
I had problem a while ago with via mini itx hardware, that was quite
close. If I try boot from usb (installed in usb hdd), I get to the point
of loader not finding my disk.
I then used a small flash disk attached to the ata (44 pin ide) channel
and formatted /boot in there. this way I get to the point of mount root
you said, and da0 not being alive soon enough to mount root. list disks
also couldn't find da0 though.
I tried current from that time, and no good.
if this is solved, I'll be happy to try whatever patch to current. (as
long as I can install it from another box/or its ata channel, as it can't
boot vanilla 7.1R)
matheus
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