Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 16:12:38 -0700 From: bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Booting a USB hard drive Message-ID: <20150610231238.GA29525@www.zefox.net>
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Are there any descriptions floating around for booting an rpi2 from a usb hard disk? I thought it would be a simple matter of loading a crochet image on both microSD card and hard disk, then adjusting the boot config on the microSD card to point at the hard disk. In fact it does work, but only by stalling the boot process at the mountroot prompt long enough for the hard disk to be (re) discovered, whence issuing the ufs:da0s2a command results in a clean boot of the hard disk, with the microSD card left unmounted. Apologies if this is a premature request; there are many discriptions of how to boot Raspbian from USB, but I could not find any guidance on how to do it with FreeBSD. The small success thus far seems to have been a matter of luck. Thanks for reading, and any guidance. bob prohaska
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