can openbsd be installed and booted from a pen drive??

["Sweetleaf" <sweetleaf@fastmail.fm>]

Has anyone successfully setup and booted openbsd 3.x from a usb pen
drive. I have a 128 mb cigar pro-2 usb pen drive and cant seem to get it
to work,, boot. I am trying to load openbsd 3.4, the 3.4 boot cd find and
loads the pen drive as sd0, setup ask me which drive to install to and
has [sd0] there by default....and i select to use all of sd0. The pen
drive is then partitioned and formated successfully..... the bsd, base
and etc   packages are installed successfully. The whole install seems to
go fine and i choose my US/Central time-zone and then all the device
nodes are make successfully but then i get a message right at the end
that says ./installboot could not install the boot-loader because of
geometry problems or something. So, in a nut shell i am able to install
openbsd to the pen drive but the booting issues have me stumped. I
searched google for awhile and found this..

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2003-07/1789.html



It does not work for me as i get messages from fdisk to use chs format. I
read in the faq about how openbsd boots and it gave a example which i
tried to fit to my situation....so i tried this

Booted from the boot.cd and choose shell mode.

# cd /usr/mdec

# ./installboot -h 64 -s 32 boot biosboot /dev rsd0c   

That does something as the light on the pen drive flicker and i get a
report about it being installed across the drive or something...but still
not able to boot from it and i have tried all the setting...usb-hdd,
usb-zip, usb-rmd etc... in the bios.

This would be nice for a firewall, just plug the pen drive in a presto



Thanks in advance.



#fdisk -E sd0

device /dev/rsd0c
type scsi
disk scsi disk
label usb flash disk

bytes/sector 512
sec/track 32
tracks/cylinder 64
sec/cylinders 2048
cylinders 256000
rpm 3600           **dont know why it show this but its there.

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