Root on USB stick

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Sun, 5 Jun 2016 23:32:42 -0700
Lou Katz <pi at metron.com> wrote:

> Where does the FreeBSD boot loader for Pi2 know about or find out
> where the root partition is? I need to boot from an image in the
> micro slot that I cannot remove (because I broke the push-pull
> mechanism) but use a root parition on another card accessed through a
> USB port.
> 
> There seems to have been a way to do this with FreeBSD 10, but I
> cannot find it in FreeBSD 11.
> 
> Thank you

there is an entry in the kernel configuration file where to find root
by default.

But you would need a custom kernel for this.

Erich