Re: Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?

2009-07-27 Thread Al Plant

Fbsd1 wrote:

Randi Harper wrote:

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi 
lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote:


Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu:
Hello

I found here that some bios does have problem with booting
from partitions they do not know

So first I initialize the USB stick with
==
dd count=100 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0
fdisk -BI da0
sade
==
than edit the partitions...
ls /dev/da* should show da0s1 da0s2
than
disklabel -wB da0s1
disklabel -wB da0s2
newfs -L Freebsd7 da0s1a
newfs -L Freebsd8 da0s2a
boot0cfg -vB da0

mount the partitions, copy the files
boot from the usb...  it will show you the F1 F2 chooser

for me, this worked


Sergio



Just to clarify, are you trying to boot from a USB stick that you've
installed FreeBSD onto, or is this a USB stick that you've dd'ed the
memstick.img to?

You should NOT use disklabel on a usb stick that you're dd'ing the
memstick.img to.

-- randi
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Here I will try to re-state the problem.

I have two USB Flash Memory sticks. One is a 2GB stick and the other is 
a 8GB stick. I can install Freebsd 8.0 from disc1 cd onto the 2GB stick 
or dd the memstick.img to the 2GB stick and in both cases it will boot 
just fine.


When I repeat the same procedure using the 8GB stick it will not boot. 
AS a test I have fdisk'ed the 8GB stick under MS/XP and loaded files to 
it ok.


The only thing I see different between the 2 memsticks is in the 
messages 7.2 issues when the sticks get plugged in.


Take note of the revision level differences between them.
2.00/1.00 versus  rev 2.00/2.00

The only other guess I have is that the usb code in 7.2 has
am error in it.

Brand new 8GB Kingston DataTraveler 120 purchased 7/16/09

 umass0: Kingston DataTraveler 120, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 
on uhub1

 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have 
changed

 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
 da0: Kingston DataTraveler 120 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 
device

 da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
 da0: 7643MB (15654848 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 974C)
 GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0a is ufsid/4a615a2cc673eb3d.


# 3 year old 2GB Kingston DataTraveler
umass1: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00,
 addr 3 on uhub1
da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da1:  USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da1: 1.000MB/s transfers




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Aloha,


I put FreeBSD 7.2 iso (from Maniolis CD/DVD ) on stick (a Sandisk Cruzer 
16 GB), and it works fine. This was using the normal install directed to 
the stick. Booting was not an issue.  Maybe your stick is messed up.




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Re: Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?

2009-07-24 Thread Fbsd1

Randi Harper wrote:

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi 
lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote:


Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu:
Hello

I found here that some bios does have problem with booting
from partitions they do not know

So first I initialize the USB stick with
==
dd count=100 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0
fdisk -BI da0
sade
==
than edit the partitions...
ls /dev/da* should show da0s1 da0s2
than
disklabel -wB da0s1
disklabel -wB da0s2
newfs -L Freebsd7 da0s1a
newfs -L Freebsd8 da0s2a
boot0cfg -vB da0

mount the partitions, copy the files
boot from the usb...  it will show you the F1 F2 chooser

for me, this worked


Sergio



Just to clarify, are you trying to boot from a USB stick that you've
installed FreeBSD onto, or is this a USB stick that you've dd'ed the
memstick.img to?

You should NOT use disklabel on a usb stick that you're dd'ing the
memstick.img to.

-- randi
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Here I will try to re-state the problem.

I have two USB Flash Memory sticks. One is a 2GB stick and the other is 
a 8GB stick. I can install Freebsd 8.0 from disc1 cd onto the 2GB stick 
or dd the memstick.img to the 2GB stick and in both cases it will boot 
just fine.


When I repeat the same procedure using the 8GB stick it will not boot. 
AS a test I have fdisk'ed the 8GB stick under MS/XP and loaded files to 
it ok.


The only thing I see different between the 2 memsticks is in the 
messages 7.2 issues when the sticks get plugged in.


Take note of the revision level differences between them.
2.00/1.00 versus  rev 2.00/2.00

The only other guess I have is that the usb code in 7.2 has
am error in it.

Brand new 8GB Kingston DataTraveler 120 purchased 7/16/09

 umass0: Kingston DataTraveler 120, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 
on uhub1

 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have 
changed

 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
 da0: Kingston DataTraveler 120 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 
device

 da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
 da0: 7643MB (15654848 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 974C)
 GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0a is ufsid/4a615a2cc673eb3d.


# 3 year old 2GB Kingston DataTraveler
umass1: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00,
 addr 3 on uhub1
da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da1:  USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da1: 1.000MB/s transfers




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Re: Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?

2009-07-23 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu:
Hello

I found here that some bios does have problem with booting
from partitions they do not know

So first I initialize the USB stick with
==
dd count=100 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0
fdisk -BI da0
sade 
==
than edit the partitions...
ls /dev/da* should show da0s1 da0s2
than
disklabel -wB da0s1
disklabel -wB da0s2
newfs -L Freebsd7 da0s1a
newfs -L Freebsd8 da0s2a
boot0cfg -vB da0

mount the partitions, copy the files
boot from the usb...  it will show you the F1 F2 chooser

for me, this worked


Sergio
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Re: Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?

2009-07-23 Thread Randi Harper
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi 
lenzi.ser...@gmail.com wrote:

 Em Qui, 2009-07-23 às 12:52 +0800, Fbsd1 escreveu:
 Hello

 I found here that some bios does have problem with booting
 from partitions they do not know

 So first I initialize the USB stick with
 ==
 dd count=100 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0
 fdisk -BI da0
 sade
 ==
 than edit the partitions...
 ls /dev/da* should show da0s1 da0s2
 than
 disklabel -wB da0s1
 disklabel -wB da0s2
 newfs -L Freebsd7 da0s1a
 newfs -L Freebsd8 da0s2a
 boot0cfg -vB da0
 
 mount the partitions, copy the files
 boot from the usb...  it will show you the F1 F2 chooser

 for me, this worked


 Sergio


Just to clarify, are you trying to boot from a USB stick that you've
installed FreeBSD onto, or is this a USB stick that you've dd'ed the
memstick.img to?

You should NOT use disklabel on a usb stick that you're dd'ing the
memstick.img to.

-- randi
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Are all USB Flash Memory sticks bootable?

2009-07-22 Thread Fbsd1
Have problem with being able to boot off an new 8GB USB Flash Memory 
stick. When I load the 8.0 disc1.iso to an 2GB USB Flash Memory stick it 
will boot fine. But when I do the same thing to a new 8GB USB Flash 
Memory stick it’s not recognized as bootable. I can access the installed 
partitions manually by mounting then on the 7.2 system. So I know the 
8GB stick has been loaded correctly. I am doing this on a 7.2 release.


Below are the console messages that get displayed when I plug in each of 
the USB Flash Memory stick. You can see a great difference between the 
first set of messages for the 8GB stick versus the 2GB stick that 
follows. I want to boot off the 8GB stick just like I do with the 2GB stick.


What is going on here? They should be handled the same way.


Brand new 8GB Kingston DataTraveler 120 purchased 7/16/09

 umass0: Kingston DataTraveler 120, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2 
on uhub1

 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0
 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have 
changed

 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data)
 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
 da0: Kingston DataTraveler 120 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 
device

 da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
 da0: 7643MB (15654848 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 974C)
 GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0a is ufsid/4a615a2cc673eb3d.


# 3 year old 2GB Kingston DataTraveler
umass1: vendor 0x0930 USB Flash Memory, class 0/0, rev 2.00/2.00,
 addr 3 on uhub1
da1 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0
da1:  USB Flash Memory 6.50 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
da1: 1.000MB/s transfers



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