From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 12 17:12:58 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EBDA16A420 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:12:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [216.148.227.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AED213C4B6 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:12:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from icarus.home.lan (c-71-198-0-135.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[71.198.0.135]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20070212171257m1400k6nufe>; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:12:57 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C59601FA01D; Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:12:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:12:56 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: "Todorov @ Paladin" Message-ID: <20070212171256.GB40543@icarus.home.lan> Mail-Followup-To: "Todorov @ Paladin" , freebsd-stable References: <45D08653.2020509@paladin.bulgarpress.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45D08653.2020509@paladin.bulgarpress.com> X-PGP-Key: http://jdc.parodius.com/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: install on USB flash memory X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:12:58 -0000 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 |