Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

[Andrew Moran]

Thanks Steve,

So USB2 from a PC should work, which is good.    I had problems  
booting FreeBSD 7.1 from even the internal drive on the mac mini until  
I partitioned it with MBR (as opposed to GUID)..   I tried installing  
to a USB drive last night, but it doesn't seem to show up when I hold  
down option while booting (that normally shows all bootable drives).   
I was hoping if anyone has done this for some pointers.


--Andy

On Mar 17, 2009, at 3:51 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote:

> Andrew Moran wrote:
>>
>> Hey guys,
>>
>> I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1  
>> on a
>> USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and
>> successfully booting off of it?
>
> I don't know about the Mac Mini part, but I certainly boot FreeBSD 7.1
> from USB2 drive:
>
> pe-acc-2b# df -h
> Filesystem    Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0a     939M    425M    439M    49%    /
> devfs         1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
> /dev/md0       31M     16K     28M     0%    /tmp
> /dev/md1       15M     36K     14M     0%    /var/run
> /dev/md2       31M    2.4M     26M     9%    /var/log
> /tmp           31M     16K     28M     0%    /var/tmp
>
> da0: <Flash Drive SK_USB20 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
> da0: 974MB (1994752 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 974C)
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0a
>
> Steve
>