Re: USB Key Disk Boot

From: Mike Tancsa (mike_at_sentex.net)
Date: 10/31/04

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To: "JT" <jtfbsd@jt.net.au>, <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>

    At 01:04 AM 31/10/2004, JT wrote:
    >Hi
    >
    >Has anyone already developed or had experience with getting FreeBSD to run
    >off a USB key disk?

    Yes, I have been playing around with NANOBSD (/usr/src/tools/tools/nanobsd)
    on a Lexar Jump drive. Dont use USB 2.0 as it seems broken with this unit

    Change the Makefile to use
    DEVICE?= da0
    and make.conf, you need to add
    NO_BIND=yes

    Do a make and then
    dd if=_.i of=/dev/da0 bs=64k

    where da0 is your USB key drive

    And you should be good to go.

    One thing I have not figured out is how to change programatically what the
    default is to boot. If I physically go to the console and hit F1 or F2,
    the next time it will change the default. But I dont know how to do that
    without physical access to the keyboard. I think I am just
    misunderstanding boot0cfg.

             ---Mike

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