hi, On 7 August 2011 12:19, Francois Pussault <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, all, > > This should be an hardware issue, I've used an usb external drive with > success. whith a dell A6 or A7 version of Dell bios, boot usb enabled, with a > (double-usb) eternal drive, using BSD4.2 filesystem. > > so maybe you need a bios upgrade or a double-usb-drive to be able to boot or > to use BSD4.2 fs on / ?
i'd agree with you if it wasn't for the fact that NetBSD has been on this drive at some point, and has booted from it just fine, unfortunately only OpenBSD seems to suffer being able to work off this drive. I'm wondering if it's down to how the other BSDs partition the disk? it's entirely possible other OSes gave a small partition for /boot which the bios could pick up on? that being the case, is that easy to do at install time? i'll have to read the docs i suppose, assuming its even a good idea. But bios upgrade? No, i really can't see how that's correct given evidence to the contrary. Thanks, Michael
