Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:51:45 -0400 From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca> To: Andrew Moran <amoran@forsythia.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive Message-ID: <49C02981.1040500@ibctech.ca> In-Reply-To: <81BA948E-2BF8-4165-8CBF-B8F86B238757@forsythia.net> References: <81BA948E-2BF8-4165-8CBF-B8F86B238757@forsythia.net>
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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: <Flash Drive SK_USB20 1.00> 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
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