Fbsd1 schrieb:
Christoph Kukulies wrote:
I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my
Desktop PC and install 8.0
from it.
Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB
stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu.
Any clues?
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Christoph
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Older pc's have bios which do not have option to boot from USB stick.
I think that is so in your case. Check mfg website for bios update.
If not you are SOL. (shit outof luck)
I can boot USB sticks in general from that notebook/BIOS. That Dell 9400
isn't that old. Today I tried an another USB stick (16GB) an Ubuntu 9.04
boot image and it worked fine. I saw the boot device under F12 in the
bootable device
menu.
It's definitely not the BIOS. Could be some partition problem (active
partition?). Why is it part #4 btw, that FreeBSD resides in and not part
#1 ? I followed some FreeBSD howto, if I'm not wrong, to bring the ISO
to the USB stick. Think it was a tool from HP to write it to the stick.
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Christoph
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