BTX on USB pen drive

[Vivek Khera]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Vincent Mialon wrote:

> I want to use nanobsd to generate optimized FreeBSD-7.0-release  
> images on USB
> pen drive. I generated images with nanobsd. It works on a standard  
> pc with an
> old Celeron 2.4Ghz but on a brand new supermicro X7SBi with a Core 2  
> Quad it
> doesn't boot.
>

Take a look at pfSense, a freebsd-based firewall/router with a nice  
GUI.  I believe it can boot from USB stick.  It will run as a live CD  
as well, which seems more secure than USB since you can't corrupt it.   
It is open source and free of cost.

See http://www.pfsense.com/


If you *really* want to roll your own with nanobsd, see if you can  
make it use grub as the boot loader instead.  I hear it has an easier  
time with some hardware.