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    Boot FreeBSD ISO from Grub2 USB stick

    I'm sure that's true. If you use the bootonly ISO, it doesn't matter, though, because the ISO is never mounted as a loopback device by FreeBSD (or grub, for that matter). "loopback" in grub is more like unzipping a specific file from a tar.gz than actually mounting an ISO as a loopback device...
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    Boot FreeBSD ISO from Grub2 USB stick

    You need to use the Boot Only FreeBSD ISO Please see my explanation. The FreeBSD CDs do not recognize the iso-scan/filename kernel parameter (as a FreeBSD n00b, I don't even know if FreeBSD accepts kernel parameters in that syntax). However, after posting my explanation, I did try Jola's...
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    Boot FreeBSD ISO from Grub2 USB stick

    It looks like you've copy/pasted the required Ubuntu parameters. Have you tested? Does this work? Obviously "boot=casper" and "iso-scan/filename" have no meaning as BSD kernel arguments. Actually, I think "noeject", "noprompt", and "splash" are also meaningless for FreeBSD. You should be able to...
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    SpiderOak?

    Has anyone tried running SpiderOak on the Linuxulator? I'm told Dropbox works for Download only because it requires inotify to track file changes and Linuxulator doesn't provide that. SpiderOak has a --batch mode which scans for changes, syncs, and then exits. I'm hoping this does not depend on...
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