Boot Dragonfly BSD from USB CDROM
Michael Neumann
mneumann at ntecs.de
Sat May 31 04:15:27 PDT 2008
Damian Lubosch wrote:
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
Please try booting with the following boot-loader setting:
set hw.usb.hack_defer_exploration=0
Maybe that helps. Maybe not.
Regards,
Michael
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