Booting the raspberry pi 2 from a usb hd

[Simon Dick]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 15:32, Victor <vdemart at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm using a pi 2 card with FreeBSD 11.2-STABLE on the required sd card. It
> works like a charm but using it as a postgresql server with many write
> operation on it, to be on the safe side, I would like to move the operating
> system to an external hard-disk or ssd.
> I've been surfing the net to find if it is possible to boot my pi 2 from
> an external hard-disk (or SSD) to no avail.
> Could you please give me some hint, directions on this subject?
>

>From memory the Pi 2 itself doesn't support booting from USB so your best
bet would be to mount the external drive and then place your postgres data
files on there. I believe the Pi 3 upwards can do USB booting, though I
don't know how much support there is in FreeBSD for it yet as I've not had
a reason to try.