A Tale Of Two USB Pen Drives

[Alexander Shendi]

Hi,

thanks for the reply
Here a few additional data points:
1. The machine boots in UEFI-only mode. I have to "gop set 2" before booting. Still the same symptoms.
2. The machine also boots in "Legacy" mode. Same symptoms. 
3. last few lines of output before "mountroot>"  prompt:

da8 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
da8: <USB DISK 2.0 PMAP> Removable SCSI-4 direct access device
da8: Serial Number 90008CE057A40545
da8: 40.000 MB/s transfer
da8: 29604 MB (60628992 512 byte sectors 255H 63 S-T 3773C ) 
da0s4: cannot find label (fixlabel: raw partiton offset != slice  offset) 
da8: reading primary partition table: error accessing offset 00000000000 for 512
byte
Mounting root fron ufs:part-by-label1/DragonFly.8.1.a
no disk naned 'part-by-label/DragonFly_5.8.1.a' 
ffs_mountroot: can't find root 
Root mount failed: 6

4. Specifiying 
vfs.mountroot.timeout="10" or "20"
doesn't help. 

TIA for your help. 

Alexander 





Am 18. September 2020 22:42:30 MESZ schrieb Vincent DEFERT <20.100 at defert.com>:
>FreeBSD has the following line in it's USB images /boot/loader.conf:
>
>vfs.mountroot.timeout="10"
>
>It may help to include it in DragonFly's.
>
>On 18/09/2020 22:18, nacho Lariguet wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:02:51 +0200
>> Alexander Shendi <Alexander.Shendi at web.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> so yesterday I decided to try out Dragonfly BSD. So I booted OpenBSD
>6.8-beta on my trusty Lenovo Thinkpad X220 and promptly downloaded the
>5.8.1 release memstick image. I then used dd(1) to copy it to
>/dev/rsd1c and rebooted. I rejoiced that the image booted but was
>dismayed that it asked me to specify the root fs. Choices of da0 da0s4
>and da8 were displayed. By subsequent use of "lsdev -v" at the boot
>prompt I determined that "da8" probably was the correct choice, with
>da0s4 being the OpenBSD partition, which I wanted to leave alone.
>>>
>>> Use of "ufs:da8", "hammer2:da8", "ffs:da8" all gave an error reading
>sector 0 of the device.
>>> I thought that the pen drive might be defective and went to town to
>buy another one. That didn't help. Neither did using the current
>snapshot help.
>>>
>>> I'm now at loss what to do. I like challenges and simply using the
>working OpenBSD installation won't do.
>>>
>>> I would be grateful for any help, or pointers to any dics that I can
>RTFM. TIA.
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> /Alexander
>> I hit the same issue last month: all of my Kingston DataTraveller G3s
>(and I got a lot of them) left me at the boot prompt with the same
>message asking me to specify the location of the file-system. (see my
>attached image)
>>
>> At first I suspected bad firmware on the Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny
>M715q I was attempting to boot into (from my experience IBM and Lenovo
>being the worst uEFI implementations I ever seen, full of bugs), but,
>after a while, it seemed evident it was not the firmware since every
>other liveCD I throwed at the machine booted flawlessly, that including
>even pfSense and, of course, many linux distros.
>>
>> Try the following: when it asks for the fs and you don't see your
>drive listed, wait a couple of minutes (2+ minutes of my Lenovo) and
>probably you'll see kernel messages showing the drive detected after a
>while, at this point enter ? again and you'll see your boot drive (the
>USB key) listed, from then on, it is straightforward to boot the
>liveCD.
>>
>> It is like the USB keys are not properly detected sometimes, or,
>detected but the kernel waits for something to complete, or whatever.
>>
>> FYI: even after successfully installing dragonFlyBSD I came across
>the same issue every time I insert a Kingston USB key. I encounter this
>issue in uEFI mode, I don't now right now if it also pops up booting in
>BIOS mode.

-- 
Ceci n'est pas un courriel. 
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