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Date:      Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:35:39 +0100
From:      Martin Nilsson <martin@gneto.com>
To:        Karel Miklav <karel@lovetemple.net>
Cc:        "Todorov @ Paladin" <todorov@paladin.bulgarpress.com>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: install on USB flash memory
Message-ID:  <45D2ADBB.9090301@gneto.com>
In-Reply-To: <45D1FC09.1030607@lovetemple.net>
References:  <45D08653.2020509@paladin.bulgarpress.com>	<20070212171256.GB40543@icarus.home.lan> <45D1FC09.1030607@lovetemple.net>

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Karel Miklav wrote:
> Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>  > I think this has been discussed before.  The problem is that FreeBSD's
>  > bootloader doesn't support booting off of such devices, thus you
>  > need to use GRUB or another bootloader.
> 
> But the guy from tutorial is doing that, and I made such a stick too.
> And it boots on ThinkPad X40 perfectly.

It depends on the BIOS, it works on some boards but most new 
motherboards I've tried gives a BTX halted panic.




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