From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 14 20:00:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD77A16A420 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:00:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikko@whitecortex.net) Received: from whitecortex.net (whitecortex.net [62.142.244.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46BF043D49 for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 20:00:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikko@whitecortex.net) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whitecortex.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4D241BE6DF for ; Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:57:59 +0200 (EET) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: questions@freebsd.org From: Mikko Heiskanen Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 21:57:58 +0200 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: Subject: Bootstrapping usb flash 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, 14 Feb 2006 20:00:12 -0000 I have a Lacie Orange 7Gb usb flash drive, into which I've tried to install FreeBSD 6-RELEASE a couple of times. I've had no luck booting it, only a "invalid diskslice" -message after normal installation and boot. However, netbsd3 boots nicely with default install off the drive, as does archlinux after modifying the mkinitrd.conf a little. I was wondering if there is something I could do to make FreeBSD boot off it too, since it is the OS I would prefer. TIA ps. I'm not subscribed atm