Re: Boot Dragonfly BSD from USB CDROM

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Dmitry Komissaroff wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> After some personal troubles I'm back (with my bad english). :)
>
> Recently I got one of eeePC with Windows installed. How you all know, it 
> haven't any CD or DVD drivers. OK. I got external USB DVD-ROM. But any 
> attempting to boot DFly failed. Kernel just don't want to see external 
> usb DVD. Loading from loader promt umass kernel module don't help. But 
> all usb ports visible for kernel. I think, kernel just don't want probe 
> umass devices before it try mount rootfs.

This might be related to my commit making USB work on my HP compaq
laptop [1]. I think I want to conditionalize delaying of USB
exploration.

Could you try out a snapshot ISO image of DragonFly that was created
before 25th May?

Regards,

  Michael

[1]: 
http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/sys/bus/usb/usb.c.diff?r1=1.43&r2=1.44&f=u