Hi
So sorry! so dumb. I didn't put usb ports ahead of hard
drive in boot order.
Both usb direct drive and usb external hard drive work.
But boot loading is VERY slow for both.
Thank's so much!
Damon
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 07:48 am, you wrote:
> I've installed FreeBSD to a 1gb usb drive, but getting
it to boot is really
> the hard part. The new dells at my work boot off the
USB drive just fine,
> but the Gateways at my school (that did have a boot
from usb option) seem
> to have a problem with it. The Gateway BIOS must not
have drivers, or
> something, Im not sure, but the Gateways would boot off
my USB harddrive
> that had freebsd on it. If your getting to the boot
loader though, it
> should work. Are you booting from usb, or your hd?
And what kind of
> errors is it giving you? I had some problems with it
changing the device
> name, but that was when i was going from one computer
to another. Some
> computers have different usb devices/drivers and so it
changes the device
> name, I don't know the exact details. It's been a
while since I did this.
> When the boot loader trys to load the kernel, and then
it trys to mount the
> filesystem (or the umm, something) it trys to look in
da0s1, but it might
> change to something else. When you copied / and /usr
over to your usb
> drive, it also copied settings and stuff (not realy
sure). It might be
> trying to load the filesystem from da0s1 (mian hd)
instead of da1s2 or
> something wierd like that. Id try and actually install
FreeBSD to your USB
> drive using a bootable FreeBSD cd. I was surprised
when it detected the
> USB drive. You of course don't get the most updated
version, but it will
> probably work a lot better. Interestingly, Windows 2k
will see a usb drive
> also, but of course it fails like it always does. Hope
this helps, or at
> least points you in the right direction. For a better
explanation of the
> booting process read
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/bo
oks/handbook/boot.html I'm
> sure that I messed it all up in the way I explained it.
>
> Eric Stringer
>
> > Message: 4
> > Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 21:45:24 -0700
> > From: Damon Blom <surferdamon adelphia.net>
> > Subject: freebsd on memory card
> > To: questionsfreebsd.org
> > Message-ID: <200509052145.24906.surferdamonadelphia.net>
> > Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="us-ascii"
> >
> > Hi
> > presario r3000 amd64 freebsd-current 7.0
> > ad0: 76319MB Hitachi DK23FA-80
> > da0 HP Digital drive 1.00 > Removable direct
access SCSI -0 Device
> > dual XP/FreeBSD with easy boot
> > used sysinstall to configure da0 as entire
freebsd
> > da0s1a /tmp 390MB
> > da0s1d /tmp/usr 600MB
> > used gtar to transfer / to /mnt
> > transfer /usr to /mnt/usr
(Cheat Sheet)
> > usb bootable (bios) shows
> > F1 ? (win)
> > F2 Freebsd
> > F5 Drive 1
> > But will not boot . I did same thing on desktop
with a second hard
> > drive and it booted fine. Is it because memory
card is not really a hard
> > drive? Any way to do it ?
> > Thank's
> > Damon
> > and thank's so much for freebsd (my whole life)
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
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