Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 15:59:28 +0100 From: Simon Dick <simond@irrelevant.org> To: vdemart@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting the raspberry pi 2 from a usb hd Message-ID: <CAPyG9gPp6embWSQ_x1_RZfnurNsVDv-f_jbyPcWD8iJGOBW1Sg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <A147F11E-3B87-4CB9-98AB-BC5CFB46C712@gmail.com> References: <A147F11E-3B87-4CB9-98AB-BC5CFB46C712@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 15:32, Victor <vdemart@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm using a pi 2 card with FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE on the required sd card. It > works like a charm but using it as a postgresql server with many write > operation on it, to be on the safe side, I would like to move the operating > system to an external hard-disk or ssd. > I've been surfing the net to find if it is possible to boot my pi 2 from > an external hard-disk (or SSD) to no avail. > Could you please give me some hint, directions on this subject? > >From memory the Pi 2 itself doesn't support booting from USB so your best bet would be to mount the external drive and then place your postgres data files on there. I believe the Pi 3 upwards can do USB booting, though I don't know how much support there is in FreeBSD for it yet as I've not had a reason to try.
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