nanobsd boot problem

[Paul Schenkeveld]

Hi,

On Wed, Nov 07, 2012 at 02:32:40AM -0800, Jack Mc Lauren wrote:
> Hello friends
> Thanks for helping me building a nanobsd image. I did build
> an image with no problems ( special thanks to Paul Schenkeveld  ).
> But I have some problems in the second phase of running a
> device from a nanobsd image. 
> After copying the image on a flash memory, and after I set
> the system to boot up from flash memory, I just see a black screen and a
> blinking cursor ! looks like the boot device ( flash memory ) is not recognized
> by the system.

Sounds like you've built a nanobsd image for serial console and try to
run it on a system with [vga] console.

Pls. confirm whether you have a vga console and PS/2 (or USB) keyboard
or serial console.

Pls. post the .conf file you used to build NanoBSD.

> Here are my debugging information , if they are not enough,
> tell me please to send you necessary informations :
> dmesg output :
> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus0
> target 0 lun 0
> da0: <UFD 2.0 Silicon-Power8G
> PMAP> Removable Direct Access SCSI-4 device
> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
> da0: 7388MB (15130624 512 byte
> sectors: 255H 63S/T 941C)   
> according to the last line, I change the NANO_SECTS to 63
> and NANO_HEADS to 255. (in nanobsd.sh).

Never change variables inside nanobsd.sh, create a config file instead
and the run "sh nanobsd.sh -c configfile.conf"

> ls /dev output :
>            da0s1           da0s1a     ad6s1b          da0s3           ad6s1d          da0s4
> according to the first column , I set NANO_DRIVE to da0. (in
> nanobsd.sh)
> and here are the contents of the flash memory :
>                 ls /mnt
> .cshrc          boot            lib             rescue          usr
> .profile        cfg             libexec         root            var
> .snap           conf            media           sbin
> COPYRIGHT       dev             mnt             sys
> bin             etc             proc            tmp
> Am I missing something ?? could you please me please ?

Kind regards,

Paul Schenkeveld