BTX on USB pen drive

Vincent Mialon vincent at netaktiv.com
Wed Mar 12 11:03:43 UTC 2008


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 2008 23:22:02 Torfinn Ingolfsen, vous avez écrit :
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:09:51 -0400
>
> John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> 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 output[2].
>
> Thanks to everybody for providing insight into this matter.
>
> References:
> 1) http://tingox.googlepages.com/aceraspireas5672andfreebsd
> 2) http://tingox.googlepages.com/as5672-dmesg-7.0-stable-20080310.txt




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