On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:51:41PM +0100, Raimo Niskanen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 10:36:20AM +0000, A Y wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I used the following command to create a USB flash drive installation media
> > (with all file sets included):
> > # dd if=/location/install56.fs of=/dev/rsd0c bs=1m
> > The USB flash drive was created successfully.
> > The boot process from the USB was done. However, when we came to installing
> > file sets, the following prompt was displayed:
> > Location of sets? (disk http or 'done') [http]
> > Now, what can I do to direct the installation process to look for the file
> > sets in the USB flash drive?
> > The documentation says:
> > "Once the install kernel is booted, you have several options of where to get
> > the install file sets:
> > CD-ROM, HTTP, Local disk partition, NFS"     (no mention to USB)
> > As adviced, I did the following from the shell:
> > cd /devsh MAKEDEV sd1 mkdir /mnt1mount /dev/sd1a /mnt1
> > But I got the following error:
> > Device not configured
> > Thank you
> 
> Strange.  I think 'disk' should be among the possible set locations.

Oops!  I did not see that 'disk' actually was among the possible set
locations.  Have you tried that?

> 
> What kind of machine is this?
> 
> Use the shell for some diagnostics.
> Check your dmesg.  Does the install kernel (bsd.rd) detect the flash drive?
> Check what "sysctl hw.disknames" says.
> 
> It seems the USB disk is not detected even though BIOS and boot(8) manages to
> boot the kernel.  If so there might be BIOS options that can help e.g
> setting the disks to AHCI mode, depending on what kind of machine this is.
> 
> -- 
> 
> / Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

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/ Raimo Niskanen, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB

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