Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
Chris Buechler schrieb: On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The older FreeBSD installations had a floppy boot disc, whether this could be adapted I have wondered? Not in this fashion, no. The only thing worse than booting from CDROM is booting from floppy - from a reliability point of view. Avoid it at all cost. Floppies are really previous-millenium-technology. Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
people have already suggested booting the live CD with the config on USB, so that problem's solved. try www.bootdisk.com for useful stuff, and I recommend Ultimate Boot CD as a valuable resource. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I want to boot pfsense from my usb pen drive but my BIOS it's old and can't boot from a USB drive. Sombody can help me? Note: I don't have Hard Drive nor Floppy Disk, I just have: -Cd-rom drive -1GB USB pen drive with pfsense installed (it works I tested it on my laptop) - the pfsense cd, - computer with 3 network cards. - celeron proccesor (333) very old! -- Lalo: Just do it, life is too short
Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
Ernesto Eduardo Medina Núñez wrote: Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I want to boot pfsense from my usb pen drive but my BIOS it's old and can't boot from a USB drive. Sombody can help me? Note: I don't have Hard Drive nor Floppy Disk, I just have: -Cd-rom drive -1GB USB pen drive with pfsense installed (it works I tested it on my laptop) - the pfsense cd, - computer with 3 network cards. - celeron proccesor (333) very old! -- Lalo: Just do it, life is too short If your BIOS is too old to boot from a USB drive, but you want to boot from a USB drive, what could you possibly expect us to do? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
Am 07.05.2008 um 00:21 schrieb Gary Buckmaster: Ernesto Eduardo Medina Núñez wrote: Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I want to boot pfsense from my usb pen drive but my BIOS it's old and can't boot from a USB drive. Sombody can help me? Note: I don't have Hard Drive nor Floppy Disk, I just have: -Cd-rom drive -1GB USB pen drive with pfsense installed (it works I tested it on my laptop) - the pfsense cd, - computer with 3 network cards. - celeron proccesor (333) very old! -- Lalo: Just do it, life is too short If your BIOS is too old to boot from a USB drive, but you want to boot from a USB drive, what could you possibly expect us to do? Get an adapter, so you can connect a micro drive to ATA and boot from that. There's no magic. Can't you boot from CD and put the rules on USB? I've never done that, but IIRC, pfsense can do that. Rainer -- Rainer Duffner CISSP, LPI, MCSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
Booting from CD isn't an option? Why are you trying to boot from USB? _ From: Ernesto Eduardo Medina Núñez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 3:16 PM To: support@pfsense.com Subject: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I want to boot pfsense from my usb pen drive but my BIOS it's old and can't boot from a USB drive. Sombody can help me? Note: I don't have Hard Drive nor Floppy Disk, I just have: -Cd-rom drive -1GB USB pen drive with pfsense installed (it works I tested it on my laptop) - the pfsense cd, - computer with 3 network cards. - celeron proccesor (333) very old! -- Lalo: Just do it, life is too short
Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
If BIOS does not support booting from USB then no operating system can help because the BIOS is the first intelligence to the processor which directs the computer to devices. Looks like you should boot from pfsense liveCD and then configure the rules to be saved on the USB drive. Ideally save your current config.xml file on any USB drive root. Remove all other files even if they don't matter(just keeps it clean) And then boot from CD. The pfsense should recognize the USB drive and the config file. Leave the CD in there for future power cyles. Hope this helps. Ernesto Eduardo Medina Núñez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm new to BSD and pfsense. I want to boot pfsense from my usb pen drive but my BIOS it's old and can't boot from a USB drive. Sombody can help me? Note: I don't have Hard Drive nor Floppy Disk, I just have: -Cd-rom drive -1GB USB pen drive with pfsense installed (it works I tested it on my laptop) - the pfsense cd, - computer with 3 network cards. - celeron proccesor (333) very old! -- Lalo: Just do it, life is too short
Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
Re: If BIOS does not support booting from USB then no operating system can help because the BIOS is the first intelligence to the processor which directs the computer to devices. A Compact flash with IDE interface works very well. It seems to me that a floppy could boot, load a USB driver and hand over to the USB device on these old machines? Any reason not? (Floppy disk required!) Kind regards David Hingston
Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that a floppy could boot, load a USB driver and hand over to the USB device on these old machines? Any reason not? (Floppy disk required!) I was thinking of that - I seem to recall some kind of boot loader that can load from a floppy or CD and then boot from a USB device. Don't remember any details whatsoever, and I might be dreaming that up but I'm pretty sure I've seen it at some point. Not helpful at all, but it's worth Googling for someone that's interested. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
The older FreeBSD installations had a floppy boot disc, whether this could be adapted I have wondered? Kind regards David Hingston - Original Message - From: Chris Buechler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: support@pfsense.com Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:45 PM Subject: Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that a floppy could boot, load a USB driver and hand over to the USB device on these old machines? Any reason not? (Floppy disk required!) I was thinking of that - I seem to recall some kind of boot loader that can load from a floppy or CD and then boot from a USB device. Don't remember any details whatsoever, and I might be dreaming that up but I'm pretty sure I've seen it at some point. Not helpful at all, but it's worth Googling for someone that's interested. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [pfSense Support] boot usb wothout bios support
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Tortise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The older FreeBSD installations had a floppy boot disc, whether this could be adapted I have wondered? Not in this fashion, no. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
