if other BSD can boot, you can eliminate bios upgrade solution ;) > ---------------------------------------- > From: Michael Treibton <[email protected]> > Sent: Sun Aug 07 13:31:11 CEST 2011 > To: Francois Pussault <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: installing OpenBSD 4.9 to external USB harddisk: Disk does not boot > > > 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
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