Hi. I have an old PC, which I would like to use as a diskless server, rather than trowing it away. Unfortunately the BIOS does not support USB disks.
I have installed the PLOB bootloader on a floppy disk, and with this I have been able to load the BTX bootstrap on a 4 Gb USB stick, that contains a bootable installation of FreeBSD.
But when BTX is started, it says that it cannot find the disk it was booting from, because there is no BIOS support for USB disk, and therefore it cannot continue loading the kernel.
Is there another way, that I can make FreeBSD boot from a USB disk on a PC without BIOS support? I can boot from floppy and cd.
I have installed the PLOB bootloader on a floppy disk, and with this I have been able to load the BTX bootstrap on a 4 Gb USB stick, that contains a bootable installation of FreeBSD.
But when BTX is started, it says that it cannot find the disk it was booting from, because there is no BIOS support for USB disk, and therefore it cannot continue loading the kernel.
Is there another way, that I can make FreeBSD boot from a USB disk on a PC without BIOS support? I can boot from floppy and cd.