#8811 NORM Not Tri: OFW q2e19 breaks booting off of external drives

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#8811: OFW q2e19 breaks booting off of external drives
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   Reporter:  Progman3K            |       Owner:  wmb at firmworks.com
       Type:  defect               |      Status:  new              
   Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  Not Triaged      
  Component:  ofw - open firmware  |     Version:  not specified    
 Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  hang             
Next_action:  never set            |    Verified:  0                
  Blockedby:                       |    Blocking:                   
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Comment(by wmb at firmworks.com):

 I don't know why the system used to fail 5 out of 6 times.  If the
 filesystem on the removable device is ext3, I suppose it's possible that
 the journal was dirty; that tends to confuse OFW.  In general, I don't
 recommend ext3 for FLASH-based media like USB sticks and SD, but if you
 really want to use it, you can isolate OFW from it by putting /boot in a
 separate partition with ext2 or even FAT.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8811#comment:4>
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