Canonical way to boot FreeBSD by hand, with no tools. Using one slice, one
partition
fdisk -BI /dev/da0
bsdlabel -Bw /dev/da0s1
newfs /dev/da0s1a
Making sure there's a /boot directory with the all important loader
Making sure /boot/kernel/kernel exists
This should boot -- however is pretty po
Hi,
I'm following Ceri's instructions for getting FreeBSD on a flash
drive. My laptop is a Feb 1 -current, I'm installing FreeBSD 7.1, and
the instructions are for 6.1, so we have all kinds of things that
could be going wrong.
The USB boots with the error:
F1 FreeBSD
F6 PXE
Boot: F1
Not ufs
No