On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:30:45PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:16:16AM +0100, Fluffles wrote: > > If so, i may have found some bugs / problems with boot2. Long ago i > > tried to make a bootable USB pendrive with FreeBSD 6.1 on it. It failed > > to boot with the message "invalid slice" and i got a prompt like: > > I have worked a lot with getting FreeBSD to boot off of USB devices, > and have gotten it to work. > Specifically, I have worked with USB pen drives, and USB CD-ROM drives. > It *is* possible, but what I have found is the following: > - on some motherboards, you need to explicitly configure the BIOS > to boot off of a USB device (either a disk, a CD-ROM, or a "Zip drive") > - booting off of USB-CDROM devices seems to be much more reliable than > booting off of USB pen drives > - if you have an "older" motherboard BIOS, say from about 3-4 years ago, > booting off of USB devices is more unreliable, than a "newer" motherboard > BIOS > - if I have 5 different models of USB pen drives, each model may behave > differently, and may or may not boot. Same for USB CD-ROM drives, > but I've found CD-ROM drives to be more reliable than pen drives. > > So to summarize: > - booting off of USB devices seems to be sensitive > to your motherboard BIOS, and the firmware written into your USB device. > - booting off of USB CD-ROM drives seems to be more reliable than booting > off of USB pen drives
Just to add to your list, I have been successful booting from a USB floppy drive. I don't remember the floppy drive make, but I have used it on both a Dell Optiplex and a IBM (Lenova) laptop. ////jerry > > There is no logic to this, I've just found this out from trial and error, > and banging my head a lot. > > -- > Craig Rodrigues > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
