Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

On 30 May 2018 at 18:08, Philip Homburg wrote: >>Strange. Can you try an updated test image of mine >>(https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28.xz) Oops - that should have been https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28-amd64.xz But the most recent snapshot images

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

>Strange. Can you try an updated test image of mine >(https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28.xz) That gives a 404. I have the strong suspision that your previous image doesn't get recognized as bootable because the C/H/S values are not filled in.

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 08:29:57AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg wrote: > > > > > > I have bad news and some good news. > > > > > > The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized > > > as > > > a boot device. Same as with

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

> On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg wrote: > > > > I have bad news and some good news. > > > > The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized as > > a boot device. Same as with the 11.2-BETA2 images. > > At least it's not a regression. > > > The good news is

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg wrote: > > I have bad news and some good news. > > The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized as > a boot device. Same as with the 11.2-BETA2 images. At least it's not a regression. > The good news is that if I completely

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

>Can you download the image from >https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image.amd64.xz, uncompress and >write it to a USB stick and try on this system? This is a >MBR-partitioned dual-mode test image. It's not an installer - it >should just boot to a login prompt - but can be used to test this

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

> On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg wrote: > > I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and > > FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 > > BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized. > > Can

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:11 PM Ed Maste wrote: > On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg wrote: > > I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and > > FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 > > BIOS

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg wrote: > I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and > FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 > BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized. Can you download

Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized. For reference I tried an image for a random other OS and in that case the USB stick is

Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Philip Homburg wrote: > >It's not that hard create a mbr based usb-stick. Far easier than to find a > >CD burner. > > 'Not hard' means > - undocumented. Or at least, if you start with release notes and install > instructions you