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...ce > I found the problem finally, but it wasnt with my procedure. I was tinkering with a way to boot a virtual machine device with the usb drive as its root filesystem. the VM simulated BIOS was getting in the way all over the place. I stuck the drive in a barebones linux install machine and fdisk'ed it and installed syslinux. It booted just fine on the bare metal. Something inside the virtualizer prevented either the reading or the writing of the usb disk. Thanks all for helping me focus my search.

...able: Partition manually". parted shows only one partition: [root at acrux ~]# parted /dev/sdb print Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-1430490.000 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.000 715245.000 primary lvm fdisk in expert mode (x) shows that partition 2-4 fields are all zeros. Should I now make a lvm partition in an extended partition in parted, and then hopefully, the graphical LVM will be able to add the new physical partition to my logical volume, and then resize my fs (ext3)? Thanks in advance for...

...to root> in order for Xen to start. I mentioned the 'nomodeset' argument in this report and will update with anything relevant here (i.e. if KMS doesn't/won't work at all with Xen it may be worth having nomodeset as a default for Xen Grub entries). [N.B. I was caught out by fdisk'ing the LVM partition to start at the (what was the default) 63rd sector - not the 2048th - which caused issues with Grub.] - I had a 'hack' at /etc/init.d/ where I would copy out a specific xorg.conf disabling hardware acceleration when booting Xen (rough script below - any useful...

Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso We are particularly interested in having people test this release