Has anyone installed freebsd to a usb pen drive,, boot from pen drive etc..? I have a 256 mb. cigar pro-2 usb pen drive and i would like to use it to carry a small freebsd operating system with me and be able to boot from it. I would also like to pull out the hard drive in my firewall and replace it with a pen drive,, have it boot and run from the pen drive would be nice and since after boot everything "most things" would run from ram i dont see a problem with speed. Its this dam booting thing that has me stumped. I loaded freebsd 5.2, it recognized the pen drive during boot from the cd ,,the only drive on the system to avoid confusion,, and it was available to the system as da0. I successfully setup partitions and such, installed a standard minimal base install....everything went fine and rebooted at the end as usual. Ok so in my bios i set to boot from usb-hdd....usb-fdd....usb-zip ,, and nothing. I have another computer with usb-hdd in the bios so i tried it on that,, its a award bios,,, it did seem to do something on the usb-hdd setting as it showed "FREEBSD -- F1" like it does with first starting my regular desktop with 5.2 but it does nothing and the computer only beeps if i press F1 enter or anything really. Has anyone done this before, i could sure use some help with this.
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