Good lord, that's a lot of text. It sounds like your bios are seeing the drive to boot from, but not mounting it correctly. There's a mix of USB ports on the x220 models. Can you try different USB ports and see what that changes?
If you can burn a DragonFly ISO image to CD and use a USB CDROM drive, you should be able to boot from that. I think I did just that with a x220 some time ago. If you can burn a CD and boot a different computer with it, there's a netboot server option that will let you PXEboot and install over the network, which works surprisingly well - and is how I got a different machine without CDROM to install some time ago. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 10:56 PM, Ward H <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all! First-time poster, fairly long-time lurker. I'm all new to > DragonFly BSD, but not entirely to the BSDs as a whole. I had OpenBSD > 5.4 on an HP G20 with an 80 GB HDD which got ridiculously hot. I > killed it by disassembling it and reassembling it incorrectly so I > could clean out the fans and filters. Right now I have OpenBSD on an > old Dell Latitude D810 with an IDE and just a10/100 Ethernet > connection, as well as half of a Lenovo all-in-one hard drive with > Slackware Linux 14.1, and a custom desktop with FreeBSD 9.2. I'm not > exactly a rank amateur, but I am still learning quite a bit, and I'm > always willing to dig very deep into the system and fix whatever > problems are there. > > As I said in the subject line, I'm having some trouble getting a > DragonFly BSD image file (64-bit 4.0.2 release, from the Downloads > section just off the main page) to install from a known working USB > stick to a fresh SSD (just bought it two weeks ago). I formatted the > USB stick in Windows 7 (still not quite comfortable enough to do it in > a Unix-like environment, but I want to change that soon!) in FAT32 - I > don't remember the block size, but it's possible that might be part of > the issue - and copied the image to the USB stick using Rawrite32. I > got that program from one of the folders in the untarred NetBSD 6.1.5 > that I had on the previous internal storage on this same laptop (the > drive was a Hitachi 320 GB HDD) and had used it successfully before > with that same NetBSD 6.1.5 (though I never could get modular Xorg > from pkgsrc to work), after changing the "UEFI BIOS" (ha) settings to > Legacy Only and changing the boot order so the USB ports (2 USB 2's on > the left, one USB 3 on the right) came before the internal drive and > all the other things that the BIOS recognizes, but that I'm unlikely > to use. I also managed to disable PXE Boot, which was getting in the > way, at best. I still have no clue how to use it, so I thought, best > to just not. > > My aim with this laptop is to use it as a mobile workstation to learn > a whole bunch of basic skills, possibly even help out with projects if > possible (starting with patching or porting, I guess?) I've only been > heavily working on learning all the things I'm interested in for the > past eight or nine months, all on my own with dangerously out of date > advice on blogs and such, with considerably more up-to-date > information in the various BSD wikis, and even the occasional > dead-tree book (Absolute OpenBSD second edition, Absolute FreeBSD > second edition, which is kind of out of date and very server-centric, > and Unix Power Tools, which so far has been the best investment > regarding page-to-dollar ratio for my books so far). What I want to do > is become a good system administrator, even if only for my own > edification. > > In a cost-free or low-cost world, I would be going to school for a > second Bachelor's, the second time around for a BS in Computer > Science. I've got a Master's in English, and I don't regret it for a > moment; I'm just working on shifting careers to system administration > and systems level programming and have no clue exactly how to get back > to school with credit as lousy as mine (financial aid now must be in > good standing for people to receive it, and you cannot go to any > college - even if you know you're paying for it yourself), but knowing > that I really need and want to. So the alternative seems to be- work > on software projects, get involved in the community, get > certifications. I would have done all that regardless of my status as > a student, but it's just much more obvious right now. Sorry, I'm > rambling.... I tend to do that from time to time. > > Specifically, I want to learn proper backups for various sized systems > (starting with the laptop and working up; probably using virtualized > instances for the larger ones), TCP/IP networking (which kind of gives > me fits), virtualization (as I previously mentioned), how to use > DPorts, especially if or when to use compile-time options when I'm > making and installing various programs, various programming languages, > especially C, Common Lisp (SBCL implementation - I have a serious soft > spot for Common Lisp), Python (I prefer 2.x), perhaps Perl, Haskell, > Erlang or others as they catch my fancy, how to administer databases > (perhaps towards a DBA - hopefully not with Oracle or MS, but who > knows) using PosgreSQL (I know less about it but like it what I know a > lot), MySQL/MariaDB (I have a large book on the former which to date > is my only reasonably-sized source of information on that language), > or other SQLs (SQLite?), maybe some assembly, compiling kernels with > correct options for my circumstances, using virtual kernels (probably > much later!), and, if there's anyone out there who knows how to use > the Hercules mainframe emulator, get some help firing that emulator up > and running one of the os/390 DASD volumes from the official Hercules > site or from another source (I'd use it to learn all that mainframey > stuff - JCL, mainframe virtualization, whatever stood in for DB2 in > that old OS, maybe even COBOL; I've got a sick fascination with those > lumbering behemoths the mainframes). All this is quite a list, I know. > The first step, of course, is to get DragonFly on the laptop, so, I'm > going to list my hardware and the errors I received when I tried to > install it. > > As I mentioned much earlier, this particular laptop is a Lenovo > Thinkpad X220 Laptop , convertible to a tablet. The BIOS lists itself > as UEFI BIOS, which I know doesn't make any sense, but, there we are. > > UEFI BIOS version is 8DET69WW (1.39), UEFI BIOS date (year/month/date) > is 2013-07-18, Embedded Controller version is 8ZHT34WW (1.24), Machine > Type Model is 4298W49, there is no Asset Tag, the CPU Type is Intel > Core i5-2520M CPU, CPU Speed is 2.50GHz, Installed Memory is 4096MB. > > The X220 has no optical drive and doesn't seem to have space to put > one in. There is an Express Card port, one of the larger ones (should > I even bother with it? It seems to be a pretty unpopular plug format > and I have no idea what kind of support I could get with, say, a > two-port eSATA Express Card adapter), and an SD Card reader, as well > as the previously mentioned USB ports. > > I've changed a few of the options in the BIOS and kept a few the same. > Here are some I think may help to change: > > USB UEFI BIOS Support is Enabled (I kept it on because I heard that if > you turn off this option with this model, you turn off all the USB > functionality; not what I want to do), the SATA Controller Mode Option > setting is on Compatibility; the other choice is AHCI Mode; Core > Multiprocessing is Enabled, Intel Hyper-Threading Technology is > Enabled, Intel AMT Control is Enabled with CIRA Timeout of 0 and > Console Type of VT100+. UEFI BIOS Updating By End Users is Enabled, > Flash Over Lan is Disabled. Execution Protection is Disabled, Intel > Virtualization Technology and Intel VT-d Feature are both Disabled. > > Every option is Enabled for I/O Port Access > > The Boot Priority Order is (when the USB Device is plugged in- doesn't > matter which port): > 1. USB HDD Kingston Data Traveller G3 > 2. ATA HDD0 Intel SSD SC2BW2404A > 3. USB CD > 4. USB FDD > 5. ATAPI CD0 > 6. ATA HDD2 > 7. ATA HDD1 > 8. ATAPI CD1 > 9. ATAPI CD2 > 10. ATA HDD3 > 11. ATA HDD4 > 12. PCI LAN > > Network Boot is set to ATAPI CD0, which was the only option I could > choose for some reason > > UEFI/Legacy Boot is set to Legacy Only, the other options being UEFI > Only, Both, Legacy First or UEFI First > Boot Order Lock is Disabled and Reserve Memory for UEFI Boot Manager is > Disabled > > What follows is what output I could hand-copy from the failed root > mount on my screen - > > > Device Manager Version 4.16.0 > > Reading the USB boot device as da8 > > da8 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da8:<Kingston DataTraveller G3 PMAP> Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device > da8: 40.000 MB/s transfers > da8: 30348 MB (62152704 512 byte sectors: 255H 63 S/T 3868C) > ugen0.4: <Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd.> at usbus0 > no B_DEVMAGIC (bootdev=0) > Device Mapper version 4.16.0 loaded > dm_target_error: Successfully initialized > dm_target_zero: Successfully initialized > da8: reading primary partition table : error accessing offset > 000000000000 for 512 > Mounting root from ufs:da8s1a > no disk named 'da8s1a' > setrootbyname failed > ffs_rootmount: can't find rootvp > Root mount failed: 6 > > Manual Root Filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Specify root (e.g. ufs:da0s1a) > ? List valid disk boot devices > panic Just Panic > abort Abort manual input > mountroot > > > > So that's all I get. I have looked up the error previously on the > DragonFly mailing list archives and was under the impression that it > was fixed, but perhaps I have a version without the fix. From what I > recall of the thread, the issue is that da1-7 is reserved for SCSI > devices and the Device Manager (I guess?) therefore reads the first > USB device as da8. Problem being that the bootstrap process needs the > device to be da0. Again, I think. Maybe I'm way off. > > I attempted to manually specify the root filesystem. I always used > "ufs:" at the beginning, obviously without the quotes, and attempted > with vn0, vn2, vn3, md0, md0s0, ad0, ad0s0, ad0s1, da0, da0s1, da1, > da2, da8s0, da8s1, and sg8. Barring ufs:da8 and ufs:md0,, which I'll > mention in a moment, all the others showed error Root mount failed, > with different numbers. The vn's and ad0 failed with 22, all of the > *s0 devices failed with 19, sg8 failed with 45, and ad0s1 and all of > the da* devices failed with 6. > > md0 failed with the following lines: > disk scheduler: set policy of md1 to noop > md1: Malloc disk > Root mount failed: 22 > > da8 failed with the following lines: > Mounting root from ufs:da8 > da8: open removal media: no media present > can't re-use a leaf (0019E06B9C8ABB91E7030032)! > Root mount failed: 5 > > > I then used ufs:mapper/control and received the following information: > Mounting root from ufs:mapper/control > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode > cpuid = 0; lapic -> id = 00000000 > fault virtual address = 0x168 > fault code = supervisor read data, > page not present > instruction pointer = 0x8:0xffffffff805d924c > stack pointer = 0x10:0xffffffff81ca9560 > frame pointer = 0x10:0xffffffff81ca95c0 > code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b > = DPL 0, pres 1, long 1, > def32 0, gran 1 > processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IOPL = 0 > current process = 0 > current thread = pri 12 > kernel: type 12 trap, code=0 > > CPU0 stopping CPUS: 0x0000000e > stopped > Stopped at lockmgr+0x6c: orl (%rax),%r14d > > db> > > > > So that's where I get stuck. After I use mapper/control, I can't even > panic any more, I just have to hold down the power button on the > laptop until it shuts off. > > Whatever I need to do to get this onto the SSD, I'm willing to take > those steps. If that involves flashing the BIOS, I will do that. If it > involves booting from an optical drive, I will do that (it will take a > bit longer to get the equipment together to do it, but I will). Or if > there's some way to do it with PXE Boot..... though when I start > thinking about that, I realize it's probably way more trouble than > it's worth. > > Also, a few closing quick questions: This laptop's UEFI seems to be a > pretty poor implementation (errr....unless they're all so quirky), and > I know that so far there's not really a UEFI-native option for > FreeBSD. Should I do what the FreeBSD Handbook recommends - boot with > Legacy Only and use the GPT option during setup - on DragonFly, or > just MBR, or boot UEFI Only? > > Are there any special considerations I should be aware of for SSDs > with regards to installation? Do I need to do manual offsets, or > something? > > With my plans in mind, and knowing my laptop's capabilities, do you > folks think I should use HAMMER or UFS? I'm really hoping to use > HAMMER, because I am very impressed with it and want to dig in as much > as I can. > > Sorry for the novel folks! I usually am this verbose, but have less > text specifically to put into one message. Thank you to everyone on > the lists, and I hope I can be of some assistance in the times to > come, if only as a tester for DragonFly. > > Ward
