From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 20 08:04:53 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F9A16A4CE for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:04:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from postman.arcor.de (newsread1.arcor-online.net [151.189.0.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECFD43D2F for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 08:04:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from davidbauer@arcor.de) Received: from dav (p62.246.173.64.tisdip.tiscali.de [62.246.173.64]) (authenticated bits=0)i2KG4ocj009278 for ; Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:04:51 +0100 (MET) Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:07:03 +0100 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: David Bauer Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: User-Agent: Opera7.21/FreeBSD M2 build 480 Subject: boot from usb hd X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:04:53 -0000 Hello, how can I boot FreeBSD from an external USB drive if the BIOS does not support this ? I could install 5.2 on the USB disk without problems. The only minor problem was that the system did not reboot correctly after finishing installation. But if I boot from live CD then I can mount the slices from the USB drive and all seems to be OK. So the only remaining problem is: How to boot this. Is it possible to boot some kind of mini kernel from floppy, which makes the USB drive visible and than boot the FreeBSD kernel from the USB drive ? I experimented a bit but so far without success. So any hints are wellcome :-) Thanks so lot, David.