From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 17:19:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A241A106564A for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:19:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lenzi@k1.com.br) Received: from netuno.levier.com.br (netuno.levier.com.br [201.47.3.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E948F8FC13 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 17:19:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lenzi@k1.com.br) Received: from levier.com.br (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netuno.levier.com.br (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n09B9EKb011589; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 15:19:14 -0200 (BRST) (envelope-from lenzi@k1.com.br) X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (levier.com.br) Received: from [201.22.55.28] (authenticated as k1) by levier.com.br (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 9 Jan 2009 17:19:11 -0000 From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi To: Brian McCann , freebsd-questions In-Reply-To: <2b5f066d0901090743v494c4c08ufeeec2dec319d0f0@mail.gmail.com> References: <2b5f066d0901081136n257f114akb9ebd628fd6f93a2@mail.gmail.com> <49671922.8040906@snaffler.net> <2b5f066d0901090709m6c1000efi7d411800f16cf732@mail.gmail.com> <2b5f066d0901090743v494c4c08ufeeec2dec319d0f0@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 14:11:28 -0200 Message-Id: <1231517488.6087.13.camel@lenzix.cwb.casa> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD USB Install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:19:16 -0000 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.