From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 24 23:54:07 2010 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 5B856106566B for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:54:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aiza21@comclark.com) Received: from avmxsmtp2.comclark.com (avmxsmtp2.comclark.com [202.69.191.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EF478FC0C for ; Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 28743 invoked by uid 89); 24 Feb 2010 22:47:45 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.3.1 ppid: 28737, pid: 28738, t: 0.0939s scanners: attach: 1.3.1 clamav: 0.91.2/m: Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.10.3?) (202.69.173.143) by avmxsmtp2.comclark.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2010 22:47:44 -0000 Message-ID: <4B85BC18.5000300@comclark.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:54:00 +0800 From: Aiza User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Windows/20080914) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: boot loaders and USB devices 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: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:54:07 -0000 My PC does not have the BIOS option to boot from USB. I use an USB cabled external hard drive for taking backups. It has FreeBSD installed on it which I want to boot from so the motherboard cabled hard drive file systems are un-mounted during the dump. This USB drive will only be attached to do backups. I also have a USB stick containing a Freebsd install used to clone itself to the motherboard cabled hard drive. Since the BIOS will only boot from the motherboard cabled hard drive can I install a boot loader to gain boot access to my seldom connected USB devices? I reviewed the grub port but with no joy. What do you recommend?