Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 10:10:54 -0400 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting from usb hard disk Message-ID: <a333b2be0903230710h76d182f2hc19ca1165b25d967@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net> References: <1237804575.1771.7.camel@balrog.2hip.net>
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Robert Noland <rnoland@freebsd.org> wrote: > So I have my i386 install on a usb hard disk, which I can only boot on > one machine now. ... > > robert. > > -- > Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> > FreeBSD There is one more ( at least ) problem : During installation . FreeBSD 7.0 is recording number of hard disk into installed values ( for example : First disk , second disk , etc. ) . When order of disks are changed FreeBSD is NOT able to boot because of hard-coded disk numbers ( for example when second disk is made third , or first with boot ability ) . This means that always USB disks should have the SAME device number during booting . If order of attachment changes it is very likely that it will not boot successfully . Thank you very much . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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