install on USB flash memory

Todorov at Paladin todorov at paladin.bulgarpress.com
Mon Feb 12 17:38:39 UTC 2007


Jeremy Chadwick написа:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:22:59PM +0200, Todorov @ Paladin wrote:
>   
>> Hi list,
>> I'm trying ot install FBSD on USB flash (2.0) SanDisk 512MB. The
>> procedure went good - I see first stage of the loader (which slice to
>> boot from) and then continuously scrolling assembler data registers.
>>
>> My target is simple - booting FBSD from USB flash. I've tried tutorial
>> from :
>>
>> http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2
>>
>> Laptop is Centrino based and supports USB 2.0 and booting from USB "hdd".
>>     
>
> 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.
>
>   
Thanks I will try this way..


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