Hi all.
Tell me please.
I am installing FreeBSD from USB Flash (using Grub4Dos), Gentoo Linux and Other Os.
Very handy (and CD disks that (pitifully/sorry) - sorry for my English).
Description of the action written in my HOWTO.
Now I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 rc1 from USB Flash using Grub4Dos.
But I did not get. (Maybe someone knows another method to install FreeBSD 9, USB Flash).
Starting with a USB Flash I get:
Okay, thought I. I unpacked FreeBSD9 to the root of USB Flash.
The idea is that my USB Flash has a FAT32 file system, and should be defined as /dev/da0
Now I quote:
- but the computer just restarts.
Then I began to try different options:
* Even fully loaded ISO image into memory.
Where am I wrong?
Tell me please.
I am installing FreeBSD from USB Flash (using Grub4Dos), Gentoo Linux and Other Os.
Very handy (and CD disks that (pitifully/sorry) - sorry for my English).
Description of the action written in my HOWTO.
Now I'm trying to install FreeBSD 9.0 rc1 from USB Flash using Grub4Dos.
But I did not get. (Maybe someone knows another method to install FreeBSD 9, USB Flash).
Starting with a USB Flash I get:
Code:
da0: 3824MB (7831552 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 487C)
ugen1.4: <CN023VXT724870680FX7> at usbus1
Trying to mount root from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL [ro]...
mountroot: waiting for device /dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL ...
Mounting from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL failed with error 19.
Loader variables:
vfs.root.mountfrom=cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL
vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro
Manual root filesystem specification:
<fstype>:<device> [options]
Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
and with the specified (optional) option list.
eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
zfs:tank
cd9660:/dev/acd0 ro
(which is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 /)
? List valid disk boot devices
. Yield 1 second (for background taska)
<empty line> Abort manual input
mountroot> _
Okay, thought I. I unpacked FreeBSD9 to the root of USB Flash.
The idea is that my USB Flash has a FAT32 file system, and should be defined as /dev/da0
Now I quote:
Code:
...
mountroot> msdosfs:/dev/da0s1
- but the computer just restarts.
Then I began to try different options:
Code:
...
mountroot> msdosfs:/dev/da0s1a
...
mountroot> msdosfs:/dev/da0
* Even fully loaded ISO image into memory.
Where am I wrong?