Re: Install FreeBSD on an external (usb) hard drive?
Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]>
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On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 20:38:49 +0200 Torfinn Ingolfsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm, this looks like a complicated issue. > The external (usb) hard drive have the 7.0-current snapshot on > partition 1 (da0s1) and 6.2-beta1 on partition 2 (da0s2). On another > machine (a desktop AMD machine which normally runs FreeBSD 6.1-stable > (amd64) I can boot the first partition (da0s1), but if I try to boot > the second partition, it just beeps. I'll have to do more tests. Ok, I have done some more tests. I connected the external usb hard drive to a Thinkpad T41 laptop, and it too could boot partition 1, but not partition 2. I then reinstalled 6.2-beta1 on partition 2, and after that both the T41 laptop and the AMD desktop machine can boot both partitions. But the Acer AS5672 still can't boot off the external drive, it doesn't matter if I try partition 1 or partition 2, both exhibit the same problem as described in my initial post (ie. fast scrolling text that looks like register dumps over the screen until you shut it down). I guess it is (another) bios problem on the Acer Aspire AS5672. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"