Hey all. I need some help! I'm having problems booting off of a USB drive. BTX is throwing errors. The whole story is below. Thanks.
I am trying to install FreeNAS (which is a FreeBSD derivative OS for all those not in the know) on an old Dell Optiplex GX270. Prior to install, I upgraded the BIOS to the most recent version, A07. The current system set up is: 1 IDE Cdrom drive, 2 IDE hard drives, and 1 USB 2GB Patriot Thumb Drive. The goal is to install the OS on the USB drive and put data on the two IDE drives. I am successfully able to boot off the UBCD installed an a 2 GB Kingston Thumb drive.
So far, I have successfully installed (or I believe to have successfully installed) FreeNAS on this USB drive in a number of ways. However, when I boot the computer from them, I get the following message:
Obviously the computer can read something from the USB drive as it is launching the BTX loader. The computer boots sucessfully to FreeNAS from a CD drive, but it doesn't work from USB. From the OK prompt, if I run a few of the commands, I get the following output:
I've tried enabling/disabling Legacy USB Support in the BIOS, different versions of FreeNAS (and therefore FreeBSD), however I don't know what to do now. I've read a lot about this subject using Google, trying different permutations of the error, but to no avail. Most of the posts are people having problems with no solutions. Hopefully, there is a better solution than "it's your BIOS, get a new computer".
Thanks,
Nick
I am trying to install FreeNAS (which is a FreeBSD derivative OS for all those not in the know) on an old Dell Optiplex GX270. Prior to install, I upgraded the BIOS to the most recent version, A07. The current system set up is: 1 IDE Cdrom drive, 2 IDE hard drives, and 1 USB 2GB Patriot Thumb Drive. The goal is to install the OS on the USB drive and put data on the two IDE drives. I am successfully able to boot off the UBCD installed an a 2 GB Kingston Thumb drive.
So far, I have successfully installed (or I believe to have successfully installed) FreeNAS on this USB drive in a number of ways. However, when I boot the computer from them, I get the following message:
Code:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02
Consoles: internal video/keyboard
BIOS 640kB/1038784kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(imp@81-386.ixsystems.com, Fri Nov 12 07:34:54 PST 2010)
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0x80 not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
can't load 'kernel'
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
OK _Obviously the computer can read something from the USB drive as it is launching the BTX loader. The computer boots sucessfully to FreeNAS from a CD drive, but it doesn't work from USB. From the OK prompt, if I run a few of the commands, I get the following output:
Code:
ls
open '/' failed: device not configured
lsmod
<no output>
lsdev
cd devices:
disk devices:
pxe devices:I've tried enabling/disabling Legacy USB Support in the BIOS, different versions of FreeNAS (and therefore FreeBSD), however I don't know what to do now. I've read a lot about this subject using Google, trying different permutations of the error, but to no avail. Most of the posts are people having problems with no solutions. Hopefully, there is a better solution than "it's your BIOS, get a new computer".
Thanks,
Nick
