Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:11:28 -0200 From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi <lenzi@k1.com.br> To: Brian McCann <bjmccann@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB Install Message-ID: <1231517488.6087.13.camel@lenzix.cwb.casa> In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d0901090743v494c4c08ufeeec2dec319d0f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <D15082B223DE564698EA1AB5E47F732A931238@MK-MSX3-VS3.uk.tiscali.intl> <2b5f066d0901081136n257f114akb9ebd628fd6f93a2@mail.gmail.com> <49671922.8040906@snaffler.net> <2b5f066d0901090709m6c1000efi7d411800f16cf732@mail.gmail.com> <2b5f066d0901090743v494c4c08ufeeec2dec319d0f0@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello I notice that when you write zeros to the first sectors of the pen drive it gets mad about it and you must make fsck and disklabel TWICE... the first time, it complains, the second time it works fine I assume you have grub installed (pkg_add -r grub) I use the folowing procedure: 1) put the pen drive on the computer it finds at da0 2) dd bs=512 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=20 2) fdisk -BI /dev/da0 3) disklabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 4) fdisk -BI /dev/da0 5) disklabel -w -B /dev/da0s1 6) newfs -L FreeBSDstick /dev/da0s1a 7) mount -o async /dev/da0s1a /mnt 8) mkdir /mnt/boot/grub 9) cd /usr/local/share/grub/*/ 10 cp * /mnt/boot/grub 11) cat <<% > /mnt/boot/grub/menu.lst title FreeBSD on USB root (hd0,0,a) kernel /boot/loader % 12) umount /mnt 13) grub --batch <<% device (hd7) /dev/da0 root (hd7,0,a) setup (hd7) % ========================= now just populate the /mnt with bsd and your system should come up... ================================= Hope this will help... Here i use 4gb pen-drivers running FreeBSD 7 with zfs... it works fine and very fast... Sergio.
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