Boot Dragonfly BSD from USB CDROM

[Damian Lubosch]

Michael Neumann schrieb:
> Damian Lubosch wrote:
>>
>> You can see its last messages (screenshot):
>> http://peirce.xiqit.de/damian/dfly.png
>
> Please try booting with the following boot-loader setting:
>
>     set hw.usb.hack_defer_exploration=0
>
> Maybe that helps. Maybe not.
>
> Regards,
>
>   Michael

Hi!

Well this option did not work as well. Anyway i managed to get an
instance of DragonFly BSD on this machine.

Here I will describe very shortly how:
First, I created a virtual harddrive file for qemu. Then I installed
DFly on qemu, adjusted some settings (for boot device), compressed the
file and sent it to a ftp server, and finally extracted the contents of
the file on the real hard disk using a rescue system on the server (a
live-linux). Something like cat dfly.img > /dev/sda. It actually worked
and I am one more happy DFly user ;-)


Thanks everybody for the help
Damian