Re: Bootable USB images (Re: using d-i to install kfreebsd-i386 from usb)
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 09:39:11PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:37:28PM +0100, Robert Millan wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:48:10PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> > > The standard (I have Ecma 119 (= ISO 9660), SUSP, RRIP and El Torito here
> > > as PDFs, they’re “freeware”) however specifies that the first 32 KiB of
> > > an ISO 9660 filesystem image are empty and available for, for example,
> > > bootloaders.
> >
> > I found this a very interesting observation. In fact I just implemented
> > support in GRUB to build USB-capable CD images, using this approach. You
> > just need to dd them:
> >
> > $ dd if=mini.iso of=/dev/sdb
> >
> > You will need 1.98~20091221-1 (which I just uploaded to sid), plus attached
> > patch.
> >
> > This takes advantage of the new infrastructure for bootable image generation
> > (grub-mkrescue), which abstracts the architecture-specific GRUB setup so that
> > you only need to worry about your grub.cfg and not about image building.
> >
>
> I have tried that, but it doesn't work. It works fine when used on a
> CD-ROM, but not when used on an hard-drive. The grub menu is shown
> correctly, but when selecting the install entry, it freezes on
> "Loading ...". When trying to boot using commands, it also freezes after
> entering "kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kfreebsd.gz".
Could you put that image somewhere? I'll have a look.
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Robert Millan
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