Re: Installation of Freebsd on external hard drive
Eric Schuele <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile,gmane.os.freebsd.questions |
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Marco Calviani wrote: > 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. > I''m interested in the answer myself.... Did a little googling, found this (not encouraging) post http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2004-March/003426.html > 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-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > -- Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"