Can't boot freebsd from usb device - Invalid slice

[WaW]

On 6/12/07, Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 08:32:03PM +0400, WaW wrote:
> >  Hello.
> >  I'm trying to install freebsd 6.2-STABLE to usb device. After
> >  installation done successfully and reboot i getting messages like
> >  this:
> >
> >  Invalid slice
> >  Invalid slice
> >  No /boot/loader
> >
> >  FreeBSD/i386 boot
> >  Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel
> >  boot:
> >
> >  typing "da(0,a)/boot/loader" and many other variants had no success.
> >  Also i tried to install manually, allocating full disk for bsdlabel
> >  slice - same result.
> >
> >  My motherboard is asus a8n-sli premium, and it is capable of booting
> >  from usb. Recently i successfully installed and booted opensuse from
> >  the same usb device.
> >
> >  Is there any solution to make freebsd boot from usb device?
> >
> >  PS as usb device i mean my usb flash and ata disk with external case,
> >  i tried both of them.
>
> I believe this has been discussed before.  The conclusions I remember
> being reached were that the FreeBSD bootloader has issues when trying
> boot USB disks (pendrives, CF, hard disks, etc.).
>
> Using something like GRUB (yes, to boot FreeBSD) instead apparently
> works fine.  It's in ports; sysutils/grub.
>
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>
>

Thanks, i'll try it.

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Vladimir K. aka WaW