via nano support - booting amd64 from usb

George Hartzell hartzell at alerce.com
Tue May 5 04:39:14 UTC 2009


Here's an image that I dd'ed off of a 1GB PQI usb stick.  It's a
relatively recent -CURRENT.  I checked, and it boots on my Via VB8001.

  http://shrimp.alerce.com/FreeBSD-CURRENT-usb.img.bz2

You should be able to dd it on to a stick and get going.

I've had mixed results trying to boot off of various usb flash drives.
Seems like maybe there are different flavors or something....  If one
doesn't work, try another?

g.


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