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Operating Systems BSD Bootable usb-stick, need help, sos Post 302992447 by 1in10 on Friday 24th of February 2017 11:15:43 PM
Old 02-25-2017
SOLVED at least it works for me.
I may should say this topic can be set as solved under the condition that it works for me.
It is about a usb-stick with an iso-image on it, Made on a linux machine putting a linux-distro on in, bootable device, to test the distro. I did not like it, disarded it, went back to gparted, formatting it as msdos fat32. This worked well, linux tells me, full space available.
The point is, this device goes from a linux to a BSD and rarely to a Windows machine. That is why I needed the msdos fat32 format. While linux says that everything is okay, BSD mumbles correctly, that there still is a boot partition on the drive.

Once again it works for me this way, not claiming the solution for encrypted partitions or slicing and dicing. So this is a particular solution, but probably helpful for others, who are not using encrypted slices or something just made for ufs. Although there is a slice1.

Code:
# clean the whole partition
gpart destroy -F da0

# set a mbr on the same
gpart create -s mbr da0

# fill the partition
gpart add -t \!12 da0

# format ins msdos style (fat32)
newfs_msdos -F32 /dev/da0s1

Resuming, some things take time. Damn thing.

This would or could work for make it bootable for ufs or BSD, I did not try yet

Code:
# clean it all
gpart destroy -F da0

# set a blank BSD partition 
gpart create -s bsd da0

# set the whole partition for usage of FFS(2)
gpart add -t freebsd-ufs da0

# format it (ffs(2))
newfs -U /dev/da0p1

This is an approach for flash drives

Code:
# Think twice about the name of your device
# clearing the MBR
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=2m count=0

# formatting it
newfs /dev/da0

# test test test
mount -t ufs /dev/da0 /mnt

# note da0 may, or may NOT be the correct device - check messages

 

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DAHDI_HARDWARE(8)					User Contributed Perl Documentation					 DAHDI_HARDWARE(8)

NAME

       dahdi_hardware - Shows Dahdi hardware devices.

SYNOPSIS

       dahdi_hardware [-v][-x]

OPTIONS

       -v  Verbose ouput - show spans used by each device etc. Currently only implemented for the Xorcom Astribank.

       -x  Show disconnected Astribank unit, if any.

DESCRIPTION

       Show all dahdi hardware devices. Devices are recognized according to lists of PCI and USB IDs in Dahdi::Hardware::PCI.pm and
       Dahdi::Hardware::USB.pm . For PCI it is possible to detect by sub-vendor and sub-product ID as well.

       The first output column is the connector: a bus specific field that shows where this device is.

       The second field shows which driver should handle the device. a "-" sign marks that the device is not yet handled by this driver. A "+"
       sign means that the device is handled by the driver.

       For the Xorcom Astribank (and in the future: for other Dahdi devices) some further information is provided from the driver. Those extra
       lines always begin with spaces.

       Example output:

       Without drivers loaded:

	 usb:001/002	    xpp_usb-	 e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware
	 usb:001/003	    xpp_usb-	 e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware
	 pci:0000:01:0b.0   wctdm-	 e159:0001 Wildcard TDM400P REV H

       With drivers loaded, without -v:
	 usb:001/002	    xpp_usb+	 e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware
	 usb:001/003	    xpp_usb+	 e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware
	 pci:0000:01:0b.0   wctdm+	 e159:0001  Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F

       With drivers loaded, with -v:
	 usb:001/002	    xpp_usb+	 e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware
	  LABEL=[usb:123] CONNECTOR=usb-0000:00:1d.7-1
		 XBUS-00/XPD-00: FXS	  Span 2
		 XBUS-00/XPD-10: FXS	  Span 3
		 XBUS-00/XPD-20: FXS	  Span 4
		 XBUS-00/XPD-30: FXS	  Span 5
	 usb:001/003	    xpp_usb+	 e4e4:1152 Astribank-multi FPGA-firmware
	  LABEL=[usb:4567] CONNECTOR=usb-0000:00:1d.7-4
		 XBUS-01/XPD-00: FXS	  Span 6 XPP-SYNC
		 XBUS-01/XPD-10: FXO	  Span 7
		 XBUS-01/XPD-20: FXO	  Span 8
		 XBUS-01/XPD-30: FXO	  Span 9
	 pci:0000:01:0b.0   wctdm+	 e159:0001  Wildcard TDM400P REV E/F

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