Hi list, I'm trying ot install FBSD on USB flash (2.0) SanDisk 512MB. The procedure went good - I see first stage of the loader (which slice to boot from) and then continuously scrolling assembler data registers. My target is simple - booting FBSD from USB flash. I've tried tutorial from : http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 Laptop is Centrino based and supports USB 2.0 and booting from USB "hdd". Regards, Todorov.
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:22:59PM +0200, Todorov @ Paladin wrote:> Hi list, > I'm trying ot install FBSD on USB flash (2.0) SanDisk 512MB. The > procedure went good - I see first stage of the loader (which slice to > boot from) and then continuously scrolling assembler data registers. > > My target is simple - booting FBSD from USB flash. I've tried tutorial > from : > > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 > > Laptop is Centrino based and supports USB 2.0 and booting from USB "hdd".I think this has been discussed before. The problem is that FreeBSD's bootloader doesn't support booting off of such devices, thus you need to use GRUB or another bootloader. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
Frenzy, which is based on FreeBSD can do this, and comes with a script to install it onto the Flash disk. As per some of the other posted comments else where in the thread different BIOS and USB key combinations can produce different results. The one USB key I have with Frenzy on it does not boot all computers for example my two Dell desktops boot fine, but my Dell PowerEdge 830 will not boot using the same key. On 12 Feb 2007, at 15:22, Todorov @ Paladin wrote:> Hi list, > I'm trying ot install FBSD on USB flash (2.0) SanDisk 512MB. The > procedure went good - I see first stage of the loader (which slice to > boot from) and then continuously scrolling assembler data registers. > > My target is simple - booting FBSD from USB flash. I've tried tutorial > from : > > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on- > usb-stick-episode-2 > > Laptop is Centrino based and supports USB 2.0 and booting from USB > "hdd". > > Regards, Todorov. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >