From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 17 23:26:19 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1940B106568F for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:26:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amoran@forsythia.net) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F186A8FC15 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:26:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amoran@forsythia.net) Received: from relay13.apple.com (relay13.apple.com [17.128.113.29]) by mail-out4.apple.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0DF259D2A25; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay13.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay13.apple.com (Symantec Brightmail Gateway) with ESMTP id C3FAF280A5; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:26:18 -0700 (PDT) X-AuditID: 1180711d-ab82bbb000000ff0-fb-49c0319a7f04 Received: from cenarius.apple.com (cenarius.apple.com [17.228.13.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay13.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 9F5B82809D; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <1908D317-D568-4023-978F-9F731398506E@forsythia.net> From: Andrew Moran To: Steve Bertrand In-Reply-To: <49C02981.1040500@ibctech.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 16:26:18 -0700 References: <81BA948E-2BF8-4165-8CBF-B8F86B238757@forsythia.net> <49C02981.1040500@ibctech.ca> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive 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: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:26:19 -0000 Thanks Steve, So USB2 from a PC should work, which is good. I had problems booting FreeBSD 7.1 from even the internal drive on the mac mini until I partitioned it with MBR (as opposed to GUID).. I tried installing to a USB drive last night, but it doesn't seem to show up when I hold down option while booting (that normally shows all bootable drives). I was hoping if anyone has done this for some pointers. --Andy On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Andrew Moran wrote: >> >> Hey guys, >> >> I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 >> on a >> USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and >> successfully booting off of it? > > I don't know about the Mac Mini part, but I certainly boot FreeBSD 7.1 > from USB2 drive: > > pe-acc-2b# df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0a 939M 425M 439M 49% / > devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev > /dev/md0 31M 16K 28M 0% /tmp > /dev/md1 15M 36K 14M 0% /var/run > /dev/md2 31M 2.4M 26M 9% /var/log > /tmp 31M 16K 28M 0% /var/tmp > > da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: 974MB (1994752 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 974C) > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0a > > Steve >