[issue2151] DragonFly doesn't boot from usb stick

Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado iam at juanfra.info
Mon Oct 17 23:59:56 PDT 2011


On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 09:41:35PM +0000, Sascha Wildner (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
> 
> Sascha Wildner <saw at online.de> added the comment:
> 
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:41:01 +0200, Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado (via  
> DragonFly issue tracker) <sinknull at leaf.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado <iam at juanfra.info> added the comment:
> >
> > I've tried with a usb disk. You're correct about that. Sorry.
> >
> > So, the problem only affect to usb sticks with hammer. I don't know if  
> > the bug
> > exists also for the usb sticks with UFS.
> 
> It has nothing to do with the file system you chose in the installer.
> 
> If it was installed to a device that is named differently during  
> installation vs. booting, it will break sooner or later when trying to  
> mount.
>

I can't look this now but hammer uses a entry in loader.conf. My comment
is because I don't know if UFS uses a similar behavior for loader.conf.
I guess no, but all my systems have hammer so I'm not sure.

And yes, the problem in fstab is for all types of FS.






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