Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-06-01 Thread Don Read
On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:36:49 -0400 John Nielsen said: I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on it. This should get you started:

Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-05-31 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/31 John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net: I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on it. Some questions: 1) Is this even possible? I've read that you _can_ boot Mac OS X from a USB hard

Re: FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-05-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
4) Just to be contrary, I'd also like to use GELI (if possible) for everything but /boot. Does needing an extra /boot partition change anything? Actually you can't create /boot partition, but something else like /b and link /boot to /b/boot bootloader subsystem requires that things are in

FreeBSD on USB drive for a MacBook Pro

2009-05-30 Thread John Nielsen
I'm looking for advice and/or pointers. I have an Intel-based MacBook Pro and I would like to use a USB thumb drive to be able to boot FreeBSD on it. Some questions: 1) Is this even possible? I've read that you _can_ boot Mac OS X from a USB hard drive on a new MacBook but I'm not sure if the