From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Aug 13 12:25:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FA6A37B400 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:25:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from porthos.spock.org (alb-66-67-128-5.nycap.rr.com [66.67.128.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD5A43E75 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 12:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@porthos.spock.org) Received: from porthos.spock.org (0@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by porthos.spock.org with ESMTP serial EF600Q3T-B7F8823g7DJPTck034577F7T for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:25:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jon@porthos.spock.org) X-OrigTo: Received: (from jon@localhost) by porthos.spock.org (8.12.5/8.12.3/Submit) id g7DJPTgO034576 for mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:25:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jon) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:25:29 -0400 From: Jonathan Chen To: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of USB "Disk on a key" devices Message-ID: <20020813152529.A33974@porthos.spock.org> References: <20020811235053.2E7935D04@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: telnet/1.1x In-Reply-To: <20020811235053.2E7935D04@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 04:50:53PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org When I read that there was a disk-on-key device with an embedded fingerprint reader, I went to a local mall to look for such a beast. Instead, I found myself fascinated by similar devices that claimed they were bootable, so I bought one. After some massaging (make installworld and such), it even boots! FreeBSD! into multiuser! Very cool indeed. The only problem (well, besides the fact it's very flow) is that the boot manager gets confused when loaded from the usb disk. It would show all the proper slices, but when you hit the corresponding Fn keys, it just beeps at you. I could, however, hit F5 and use the /boot/loader from my real drive to load the kernel on the usb disk. I'm probably missing something obvious, so if one of the boot0 experts happen to see this, please give me a hand. (This is a week-old -CURRENT, BTW) -Jon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message