Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:07:03 +0100 From: David Bauer <davidbauer@arcor.de> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: boot from usb hd Message-ID: <opr454d1uer1k5qp@postman.arcor.de>
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Hello, how can I boot FreeBSD from an external USB drive if the BIOS does not support this ? I could install 5.2 on the USB disk without problems. The only minor problem was that the system did not reboot correctly after finishing installation. But if I boot from live CD then I can mount the slices from the USB drive and all seems to be OK. So the only remaining problem is: How to boot this. Is it possible to boot some kind of mini kernel from floppy, which makes the USB drive visible and than boot the FreeBSD kernel from the USB drive ? I experimented a bit but so far without success. So any hints are wellcome :-) Thanks so lot, David.
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