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    Can I boot the LiveCD from an external USB drive partition ?

    Problems Installing or Upgrading pfSense Software
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      Akhone
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      I use multiple linux live CD distros, bootable from an exernal USB drive.
      Each has it's own logical partition, and using 'extlinux' from the syslinux
      project, I can boot any LiveCD off the drive. Nice for testing and demos.

      Regarding PFSense;
      Is it possible to copy the LiveCD to an external usb drive's logical partition
      and use syslinux/extlinux bootloader to boot the LiveCD ?

      I couldn't find an 'initrd' or boot options to pass to the kernel on the PFSense Live CD.

      This is a typical extlinux.conf entry;

      DEFAULT /casper/vmlinuz
      GFXBOOT bootlogo
      APPEND  file=/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash –
      LABEL live
        menu label ^Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer
        kernel /casper/vmlinuz
        append  file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.gz quiet splash --

      Thanks.
      AB

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        Akhone
        last edited by

        Can the pfsense LiveCD be extracted to a fat32/ext2 logical partition and
        be made bootable, either with 'GRUB' or 'SYSLINUX' ?

        Thank you.  :)

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