boot from usb hd

[Manfred Riem]

Hi there,

Just a question related to this issue. I have a new laptop and
because of development issues I cannot scrap the Windows 
install :(.

Anyway, my laptop has the ability to boot from a USB device,
so what would you recommend in this case? 

Regards,

Manfred Riem 
mriem at win.tue.nl
http://www.riaca.win.tue.nl/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of 
> Torfinn Ingolfsen
> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2004 7:17 PM
> To: freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: boot from usb hd
> 
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 17:07:03 +0100
> David Bauer <davidbauer at arcor.de> wrote:
> 
> > how can I boot FreeBSD from an external USB drive if the 
> BIOS does not
> > support this ?
> 
> Short answer; you can't.
> 
> > Is it possible to boot some kind of mini kernel from floppy, which
> > makes the USB drive visible and than boot the FreeBSD 
> kernel from the
> > USB drive ? I experimented a bit but so far without success.
> 
> This might be doable. You will need a modified bootloader that has
> support for USB drives (usb + umass?).
> I don't know if anyone have done this, particularly since the 
> bootloader
> don't have room for a lot of (extra) drivers.
> I think you have a lot of work ahead of you.
> If your machine have a CD-ROM drive that you can boot from, you could
> try with a FreeBSD live-cd (for example FreeSBIE).
> 
> Another way that might work would be to netboot the machine, 
> and use the
> netbooted kernel to mount the partitions from you usb drive. This
> requires a machine to hold the netboot configuration, and a network.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> -- 
> Regards,
> Torfinn Ingolfsen,
> Norway
> 
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