Re: Boot Dragonfly BSD from USB CDROM

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Damian Lubosch wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have troubles installing Dragonfly BSD from a "simulated" USB-CDROM 
> drive. I need to install the system on a remote machine which has a 
> remote management extension card from Peppercon named Eric. This card is 
> able to simulate an USB CDROM over network (samba) to the underlying OS, 
> and I hadn't any problems in installing NetBSD or FreeBSD before.
>
> When I try the new Dragonfly Release 1.12.2 I get this error:
>
>
>
> no disk named 'acd0a' (and other cd0 derivates)
> setrootbyname failed
> iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> Root mount fialed: 6
>
> Manual root filesystem specificatation:
> (etc)
>
> mountroot> _

This looks like the bug I reported here:

http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issue1017

Please try out the latest devel snapshot [1] and see whether it fixes
your problem.

Regards,

  Michael

[1]: For example from here (or use a mirror :)
http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/snapshots/i386/LATEST-Devel.iso.bz2