On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Brett <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm assuming your USB drive has an external power supply, right? > > In the past, I had installed OpenBSD (I think it was 4.7, either i386 or > amd64) to an external usb drive, powered from the usb port. It would appear > to install ok, start the boot process, then about halfway through would > appear to "power cycle" or something for a split second, causing the boot to > fail. Same thing would happen with FreeBSD and Slackware, though Ubuntu and > Fedora could successfully boot from that drive. > > Now that this topic has come up on the lists, I am just wondering are there > some non-externally powered usb drives that OpenBSD can boot from? Would be > helpful to run and test -current on external drive, and have the release > version on internal drive.
Besides flash drives, which are trivially available in 8 Gig size at your local supermarket?
