installing GhostBSD on a usb stick and multi-boot system
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criptoriga · 2019-04-19 08:07

Hello. I'm trying to install GhostBSD on a usb flash drive (not create
a bootable USB drive), but the process ends quickly in an error. I
have a multi-boot system - Windows 10, android, lots of linux systems
- and because of that I'm afraid of trying again to install BSD on the
ssd, knowing that GhostBSD is based on True OS (I succeeded to install
FreeBSD, though, long ago).

The laptop is with UEFI and my ssd and hdd are with gpt partitions. I
guess that I should install GhostBSD with a GPT partition, too. What
bothers me is that I cannot find documentation about the differences
between the bootloader options: one of them is to install refind (I
already have it on my machine), and the others are "install FreeBSD
boot manager" and "Install only FreeBSD loader" (if I remember
correctly), which aren't self-explanatory. I'm afraid to test the last
two of them because I'm thinking they could delete or bork my efi
partiton on the ssd drive, like it happened in the TrueOS
installation.

Is someone here with some experience in installing GhostBSD in multi-
boot system?

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b6s6d6 · 2019-04-19 17:28

Not sure about GhostBSD, but NomadBSD (also FreeBSD-based) is designed
to run on a USB stick by default.

Maybe try that one out

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criptoriga · 2019-04-20 08:18

Thank you. I tested today NomadBSD, it doesn't work. I think that
there's something wrong with the automatic detection of the graphic
card (I have Optimus Nvidia, but I use only the discrete Intel card in
Linux). I don't have the nerves to try to debug this error.

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b6s6d6 · 2019-04-20 20:24

Oh that's a shame. Perhaps you should try again in a year or so and
see if you have better luck then