Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-20 Thread Timm Wimmers
Andrew Moran schrieb: 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? If I remember right, enable the Open Firmware prompt to boot to other devices than

Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread Andrew Moran
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? --Andy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread Steve Bertrand
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:

Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-17 Thread 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