Boot Dragonfly BSD from USB CDROM

Damian Lubosch dl at xiqit.de
Fri May 30 11:17:01 PDT 2008


Dmitry Komissaroff schrieb:
> Problem was simple. eeePC's BIOS has badly documented switch, related
> to OS installation. After touching it, DragonFly start booting from CD.
Hi!

What was the name of the switch? In my case (virtual USB-CDROM from a
remote-management card) DFly still panics during kernel boot. I used the
newest CD image from
http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/snapshots/i386/

LATEST-Devel.iso.bz2 <http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/snapshots/i386/LATEST-Devel.iso.bz2>        30-May-2008 01:02  106M  


You can see its last messages (screenshot):
http://peirce.xiqit.de/damian/dfly.png
The setup works on other systems, like debian, knoppix, netbsd, freebsd
etc. I think also that there should be everything ok with the BIOS. Can
anybody think of another possiblity to get DFly on this machine? And no,
unfortunately I do not have access to a real CDROM on this machine.

Damian





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