install on USB flash memory

[Jeremy Chadwick]

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.

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