Re: problem on usb boot from mini itx

On Wed, March 4, 2009 01:13, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>
> On Tue, March 3, 2009 17:03, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, March 3, 2009 14:37, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Tuesday 03 March 2009, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>>>> On Tue, March 3, 2009 04:54, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>>> > On Monday 02 March 2009, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote:
>>>> >> I got one, not a bit of change :(
>>>> >
>>>> > Is the USB HUB detected?
>>>>
>>>> as far as I can tell, not at all. It complaints about not finding the
>>>> kernel.
>>>
>>>
>>>> my hopes of this working are based int the fact that I can do this on
>>>> OpenBSD. So I think is doable (ok, I'm no specialist in this, you are.
>>>> If
>>>> you say can't, I will believe).
>>>>
>>>> and more info, if I use the 44 pin ide interface to boot, when fbsd is
>>>> on
>>>> I can use the usb ports ok. hope this info helps.
>>>
>>> There is something called USB BIOS legacy support, which is running
>>> until
>>> we
>>> switch some bits on the USB hardware. If I were to guess I think that
>>> is
>>> where the problem might be according to what you are writing.
>>
>> I must have it on or off ?
>>
>> As it is an hp thin client, I don't know if it has such an option. It
>> has
>> a small flash disk (16MB or 32MB), so you think I can use these things
>> together to bypass this problem ?
>>
>> if anyone has an a idea :)
>>
>> thanks HPS
>>
>> matheus
>
> I'm using the flash disk and I got to boot. I copied kernel/kernel, and
> all files from /boot, and defaults/loader.conf. I get to the point where
> it fails to mount /, and just finds /dev/ad0 stuff (the flash disk). I did
> change loader.conf to say rootdev=disk1s1a (which I believe to be the usb
> disk). was this suppose to work ?
> I'll now copy the usb and umass modules to the flash disk (hope it will
> fit) and put on loader to load them as soon.
>
> if anyone has any hints, please :)
>
> thanks,
>
> matheus

I got to the point of:

Root mount waiting for: usbus2

and reading the other thread about this, I didn't figured out how to solve :(

I updated csup, rebuild and got to the same error.

Is there any other thing to do ?

thanks,

matheus


>>>> > have
>>>> > known problems with the USB hardware, but I cannot tell if your
>>>> model
>>>> is
>>>> > affected. You could try editing the code /sys/dev/usb/usb_device.c
>>>> and
>>>> > change
>>>> > it so that it will try the set_address command two times before
>>>> giving
>>>> > up.
>>>>
>>>> when the loader in fbsd is called, it will run this code ?
>>>
>>> No, when the kernel is loaded. The loader is using the BIOS USB driver.
>>>
>>>> I will test this when I get home at night. thanks. If you have more
>>>> ideas,
>>>> please broadcast :)
>>>>
>>>> just as more info, I tried first to use pfSense from usb stick and
>>>> never
>>>> it worked :( It nevet got to boot.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok.
>>>
>>> --HPS
>>>
>>
>>
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