Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive
Marco Calviani <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.questions |
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Hi Eric and list, unfortunately my BIOS (of a Travelmate 8005) does not support boot from USB devices. I'll search for some other information that comes from multi-os users. Thanks again, MC > > I've installed it on USB keys and external USB drives with no problem. > > Since I was only using those for experimentation, I never modified my > boot loader. My BIOS provides a boot menu for selecting the boot > device, of which "external USB device" is an option. I found this > cleaner, since when not using those devices I do not have to go through > the FreeBSD boot menu. > > Hints? > For my situation... I booted from the CD. When asked to slice and > partition my disk... I chose the external USB device. I selected the > 'standard boot loader'. Then the rest of the magic is handled by my BIOS. > > Don't know if that helps you much. > > > > -- > Regards, > Eric > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"