Hi, I've installed PC-BSD 10.0 on a 64GB USB stick (USB3) on an old laptop. It's a 2007 model AMD Turion. It booted up after installation, and then wanted to apply an update, which I did, now it's not booting.
I installed allowing the installer to use the entire disk, and do all the partitioning.
First of all, are these partitions OK as far as size? Because it looks like a couple of them are at 100% and I don't know if that is OK.
Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
tank/ROOT/default 61G 7.7G 53G 13% /
devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev
procfs 4.1k 4.1k 0B 100% /proc
linprocfs 4.1k 4.1k 0B 100% /compat/linux/proc
tank/tmp 53G 93k 53G 0% /tmp
tank/usr/home 53G 33k 53G 0% /usr/home
tank/usr/home/reggie 53G 4.1M 53G 0% /usr/home/reggie
tank/usr/jails 53G 32k 53G 0% /usr/jails
tank/usr/obj 53G 32k 53G 0% /usr/obj
tank/usr/pbi 53G 84k 53G 0% /usr/pbi
tank/usr/ports 53G 33k 53G 0% /usr/ports
tank/usr/ports/distfiles 53G 32k 53G 0% /usr/ports/distfiles
tank/usr/src 53G 32k 53G 0% /usr/src
tank/var/audit 53G 34k 53G 0% /var/audit
tank/var/log 53G 96k 53G 0% /var/log
tank/var/tmp 53G 3.7M 53G 0% /var/tmp
/dev/da1a 783M 727M -6.8M 101% /media/da1a
Secondly, I've been searching for how to fix the booting problem, but so far I've come up w/nothing. Gpart says that the USB stick is formatted FreeBSD, but beyond that, I'm lost. If you could give me the correct vocabulary to search on, I can probably find the info I need to fix this. Thanks.
gentisle

What exactly happens when it won't boot? usually you get some kind of text error, at least in any BSD I've used. Or are you just getting a blank screen?

Do you at least reach the bootloader?

ZFS's tank will often have a lot of sub-partitions inside it, but it's actually just one partition. Others are virtual file systems.

What update did you install?

notKlaatu: Thanks for answering. Nothing happens as far as BSD booting is concerned. The system simply skips over the USB stick as if it weren't plugged in. So it's as if the entire boot sector was damaged/erased. The computer boots into Windows, or if I disable the HDD in BIOS, it simply goes to a completely black screen. Since the USB stick w/PC-BSD booted before, it seems reasonable to believe that the boot sector has been compromised. At boot up, the system tries to read the USB stick (because I see it's light flashing), then it goes ahead and boots Windows from the HDD.

ReaperX7. So does that mean everything is partitioned as one partition ("/", I suspected this)? Thanks. Sorry, I don't remember the update. Whatever the update manager said needed to be done. That's what I installed.

Found *an* answer here https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?&t=34850

I simply had to use the *correct* search phrase, which is: It allows me to boot the USB stick directly into PC-BSD 10, but GRUB is no longer there. Don't know that I need that since the entire 59.x GB is used for PC-BSD. I'm marking this one as solved, but please feel free to contribute info to help anyone who has a need for this. Thanks.
gentile

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