Installation of Freebsd on external (USB) hard drive (using GRUB)

[Marco Calviani]

Hi Kevin,

2005/11/28, openbsd.org at fluet.com <openbsd.org at fluet.com>:

> I'm a little late replying, but I thought I would reply if only for archival
> searches on this subject.
>
> I have an Acer C300 TabletPC and the BIOS does not support booting from USB.
>
> This doesn't matter, however, since you can install a boot loader onto the
> LAPTOP'S hard drive that will boot the USB partitions for you.
>
> I don't recall if the FreeBSD boot loader does this, but GRUB
> (/usr/ports/sysutils/grub) definitely does.
>
> Here is my grub /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> title WindowsXP
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> chainloader +1
> makeactive
> savedefault
>
> title FreeBSD RELENG-5
> root (hd0,1,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
> savedefault
>
> title FreeBSD RELENG-6
> root (hd0,2,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
> savedefault
>
> title FreeBSD Portable Disk
> root (hd1,1,a)
> kernel /boot/loader
> savedefault
>
> title OpenBSD Portable Disk
> root (hd1,2)
> chainloader +1
> makeactive
> savedefault
>
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> As you can see, on the laptop's hard drive (hd0), I have WindowsXP and two
> FreeBSD installations.  On the USB drive (hd1), I have a non-bootable DOS
> partition (no entry but would be entered hd1,0), a FreeBSD partition, and an
> OpenBSD partition.
>
> I hope this helps some.
>
> -- Kevin

Thanks very much for your hint. I'll keep care of your instructions!

Best regards,
MC