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ps2k
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 Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 7:14 am Post subject: FreeBSD on fit-pc |
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Has anyone managed to do this?
Whenever I try to boot FreeBSD from my usb stick/cd-rom it loads the bootloader. After that I just get the message "No kernel/kernel"
Well the installation media is ok (tested on other pc's).
My guess is after the loader the usb support is gone and it can't find the cd media anymore.
OpenBSD boots and installs fine, however OpenBSD does not fit my requirements. |
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pto
Joined: 31 Jul 2007
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Location: Denmark
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 8:21 pm Post subject: I did it - kinda |
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The FreeBSD 6.2 dies as you have seen. The problem lies in a missing USB cdrom driver. The FreeBSD guys are aware of the problem now.
I got one of the old core team members to boot it, but we had to insert a harddrive, which had been externally installed
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ps2k
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| Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 11:01 pm Post subject: Re: I did it - kinda |
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| pto wrote: | The FreeBSD 6.2 dies as you have seen. The problem lies in a missing USB cdrom driver. The FreeBSD guys are aware of the problem now.
I got one of the old core team members to boot it, but we had to insert a harddrive, which had been externally installed |
So in other words, it will install fine if I yank out the harddrive, install it in my other pc and install FreeBSD?
Can you give me some details on what you have done?
NetBSD and OpenBSD seem to use other bootloaders, they boot and install just fine. On the PC-BSD forums (and somewhere on google) they mentioned it is already fixed in 6.2-STABLE and 7.0-CURRENT. However these releases also do not boot normally.
If only I could create my Frankenstein OS... NetBSD bootloader + FreeBSD... |
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pto
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| Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: Use PXE |
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I think the PXE boot option is the simplest way to get the the FreeBSD running. If you can help me with which files is to be uploaded to the PXE-server I can try it.
I was lucky that the BSD-guy (mr. PHK) had a Geode image 
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ps2k
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:15 pm Post subject: Re: Use PXE |
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| pto wrote: | I think the PXE boot option is the simplest way to get the the FreeBSD running. If you can help me with which files is to be uploaded to the PXE-server I can try it.
I was lucky that the BSD-guy (mr. PHK) had a Geode image |
The PXE booting is in theory pretty simple:
Shoppinglist:
- DHCP server
- Tftpd server
- NFS server
- sources installed
The basic steps are to set up the dhcp to offer the "pxeboot" file, the rest is transfered via NFS. I have some links to guides at home, I will post them this evening. |
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ps2k
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 3:01 pm Post subject: Re: Use PXE |
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| pto wrote: | I think the PXE boot option is the simplest way to get the the FreeBSD running. If you can help me with which files is to be uploaded to the PXE-server I can try it.
I was lucky that the BSD-guy (mr. PHK) had a Geode image |
Well I'll be... I seem to have found your article and sent you a mail. I had to make use of an online translator to read it
It seems you managed to get it on there, but I couldn't make out from the translator if you added a harddrive or pulled it out to install freebsd with another system.
Btw. I spent a few hours on getting the pxe to work... well let's say I learned something about pxe but there's still no freebsd on the fit-pc |
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swelch
Joined: 16 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:58 pm Post subject: Any progress on FreeBSD on fit-PC? |
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Has anyone gotten any further with this? I don't suppose the new BIOS that came out around the time this thread was last updated helped in getting FreeBSD working???
Steve Welch |
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swelch
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| Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 5:31 am Post subject: |
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Just tried to load Stable-6.2 with the new bios, no joy.
I'd really like to get this working...
Steve Welch |
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jasonl99
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| Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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I too would like to know how to do this. I have tried EVERYTHING. I cannot install FreeBSD (though my ultimate goal is to install pfsense).
I have tried etherbooting, writing images with physdiskwrite to both flash and external hard drives, booting from LiveCD's. It simply won't install. I have probably spent a total of three days trying to come up with a way to do this.
Bottom line:
Do not buy a fit-pc if you plan on using it for any FreeBSD-based urpose. This includes both m0n0wall and pfsense. |
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jasonl99
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| jasonl99 wrote: | I too would like to know how to do this. I have tried EVERYTHING. I cannot install FreeBSD (though my ultimate goal is to install pfsense).
I have tried etherbooting, writing images with physdiskwrite to both flash and external hard drives, booting from LiveCD's. It simply won't install. I have probably spent a total of three days trying to come up with a way to do this.
Bottom line:
Do not buy a fit-pc if you plan on using it for any FreeBSD-based urpose. This includes both m0n0wall and pfsense. |
I finally got pfsense to work through a lot of trial-and-error. This would probably also work with FreeBSD. You'll need a few parts, and a computer that has standard IDE.
In a nutshell, you need to crack open the fit-pc, and VERY GENTLY remove the notebook harddrive connector. Pry gently on both sides to get it out.
Once you have it disconnected, you can slide the top and bottom halves of the fit-pc apart.
You'll need to obtain a 2.5" to 3.5" ATA adapter that lets you use the notebook in a regular computer. You rig that up to the laptop drive, and (this is important) hook the other end up to the motherboard's FIRST ATA connector on the desktop machine. If you hook it to the second connector, FreeBSD will think its installed on ad2 instead of ad0.
Disconnect the power from any other drives just to be safe.
The idea here is that you are going to install to the desktop machine as if that's all your trying to do. It just happens to have a notebook drive.
Once you have everything hooked up on the desktop pc, boot the normal liveCD iso. Everything will be a pretty normal install. With pfsense, it's an all-text install; you might need to do this if you are just trying to install FreeBSD as well.
Once the installer asks you to remove the CD and reboot, make sure you shut the machine off.
Take the notebook drive out, put it in the fit-pc, re-assemble everything, and you should be booting up properly. I am now running pfsense on the fit-pc! |
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jideel
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Kang
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| Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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I found using unetbootin really easy to create a bootable usb drive, I just used something like (didn't write the exact line up):
./unetbootin-freebsd70rev146.sh installmode=usbdrive targetpartition=/dev/sda1 formatpartition=yes bootloader=lilo
Select unetbootin-freebsd70rev146 from the GRUB menu and freebsd boots up and you're right in the installer. |
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mangofever
Joined: 14 Apr 2008
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| I notice that some of you went to quite a bit of work to get FreeBSD installed. My question is, after all the hard work, does it function well. That is, does it have X support, audio and USB2? |
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sustech
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| Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:37 pm Post subject: |
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Has anyone found a way of getting pfsense installed yet? I'm getting the can't load kernel error also.
I have just recieved my fit pc thinking I could make a firewall out of it, but it seems it is not all that easy. I don't like the idea of pulling the thing apart!
If smoothwall loads OK I will have to go for that. |
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mangofever
Joined: 14 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:39 am Post subject: FreeBSD bit by bit |
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I installed FreeBSD using unetbootin with a USB key and FTP. In the end it was easy. I had tried to use the FreeBSD CURRENT build which seems to have booting from CDROM support but it failed to read the media when proceeding to the install. I also tried a combination of unetbootin and usb key and CDROM. But the problem of not reading the media (CDROM) persisted.
I now have dual boot XP and freebsd. However, I have not switched over to FreeBSD because my external drive is a Western Digital MyBook and it is reporting that it can only do 1.000MB transfers, and thus as a file server it sucks. Which is a shame because VNC/FreeBSD works much better for me than Remote Desktop/XP.
NOTE: I ran unetbootin on windows and just let it fetch the bootloader from the FreeBSD FTP site. I then just put the usb key into the FitPC and set the BIOS boot order to be [D,C] where D was set to 'NAND Flash'.
NOTE: I use Homeplug for networking.
NOTE: I couldn't start X on the VGA console because of some bytecode problem with the VESA driver. However, starting it via VNC seems to realise that it is headless and so it works like a charm remotely. |
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