Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Ok, writing in capitals is normally treated as shouting (see netiquette) or only allowed when someone is disabled by eyes. Just write your comments inbetween. I and others will know how to read :) -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Christoph Kukulies wrote: 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. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO THE MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE??? OR DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO ANOTHER USB STICK??? 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. YOU MEAN YOU PLUGGED THE STICK WITH THE ISO INSTALLED ON IT THAT THE DESKTOP BOOTED FROM??? Any clues? -- Christoph 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 ? LETS NOT GET CONFUSED WITH MSDOS /FREEBSD TERMS. IN FREEBSD A SLICE IS WHAT MSDOS CALLS A PARTITION. IN FREEBSD A PARTITION IS A FILE SYSTEM SUCH AS /, /USR, /VAR WITH IN THE SLICE. A SLICE IS MARKED AS ACTIVE MEANING ITS BOOTABLE. THE MBR (MASTER BOOT RECORD)PARTITION TABLE IS REALLY FREEBSD SLICE TABLE. FROM YOUR STATEMENT ABOVE YOU HAVE A MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE WITH 4 PARTITIONS/SLICES DEFINED IN THE MBR PARTITION TABLE. THE FIRST 3 PARTITIONS COULD BE HOLDING OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT YOU MAY WANT TO BOOT FROM. IS THIS CORRECT? 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. -- Christoph Here is some thing for you to check. When you plug your USB stick into a running freebsd system a bunch of messages are printed on the root console. One of those messages contain the Revision level of the 2.0 standard used by the micro code in the usb stick. I have found through testing different non-branded and branded sticks that the Revision level makes a very large difference in whether you can boot from the stick. Sticks that show Rev 2.00/0.00 or 2.00/1.00 will never boot. Only sticks that show Rev 2.00/2.00 are bootable. Now since only one of my 4 pc's is new enough to have bios option to boot from usb stick I do not know if these results are dependent on my particular Acer TravelMate 4220 pc bios. Please let me know what usb stick Revision levels you can boot from on both your desktop and laptop. I would think if the stick is bootable on desktop it should also boot on the laptop. Here is the script I use to put the disc-1 iso on usb stick so I can use the stick as source media to install from. When booting from usb stick as install source and installing onto another usb stack as the target you have to have both sticks plugged in before booting. When you are in sysinstall fdisk check the stick size to verify you have chosen the correct da stick as target. You can find yourself fdisking your source stick by mistake. If you don't get prompt to chose da0 or da1 before fdisk starts then you have to tell sysinstall to re-probe devices by using options rescan (*) off the main menu, move highlight bar by using arrow keys and hit space bar to rescan. Then you should get prompt containing both da devices before fdisk. I have used this command to to write zeros to the usb stick MBR dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 count=1 and this command to display the MBR dd if=/dev/da0 count=1 | od -c I also notice that fdisk does not allocate space on usb sticks as i would expect. It always allocates a free space before and after the full stick single slice. It also never get the size of the stick correct. A 2GB stick is shown as 1.7GB and 4GB stick is shown as 3.7GB. Do you see the same thing happening with your usb sticks? #!/bin/sh #Purpose = Use to transfer the FreeBSD install cd1 to # a bootable 1GB USB flash drive so it can be used to install from. # First fetch the FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso to your # hard drive /usr. Then execute this script from the command line # fbsd2usb /usr/7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso /usr/7.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.img # Change system bios to boot from USB-dd and away you go. # NOTE: This script has to be run from root and your 1GB USB flash drive # has to be plugged in before running this script. # On the command line enter fbsd2usb iso-path img-path # You can set some variables here. Edit them to fit your needs. # Set serial variable to 0 if you don't want serial console at all, # 1 if you want comconsole and 2 if you want comconsole and vidconsole serial=0 set -u if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then echo
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
I don't know why you shout. (?) Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: 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. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO THE MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE??? OR DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO ANOTHER USB STICK??? The former, I copied the 8.0 iso image to an USB stick, booted it and installed it to the desktop PCs hard drive. That was one story. The other point is, that I now wanted to plug this USB stick into my Dell inspiron and install FreeBSD in the same manner to a free partition on my notebooks hard drive. 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. YOU MEAN YOU PLUGGED THE STICK WITH THE ISO INSTALLED ON IT THAT THE DESKTOP BOOTED FROM??? Yes, that same stick booted the desktop but is not recognized in the F12 menu of my notebook. Any clues? -- Christoph 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 ? LETS NOT GET CONFUSED WITH MSDOS /FREEBSD TERMS. IN FREEBSD A SLICE IS WHAT MSDOS CALLS A PARTITION. IN FREEBSD A PARTITION IS A FILE SYSTEM SUCH AS /, /USR, /VAR WITH IN THE SLICE. A SLICE IS MARKED AS ACTIVE MEANING ITS BOOTABLE. THE MBR The FreeBSD fdisk program names it partition. (MASTER BOOT RECORD)PARTITION TABLE IS REALLY FREEBSD SLICE TABLE. FROM YOUR STATEMENT ABOVE YOU HAVE A MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE WITH 4 PARTITIONS/SLICES DEFINED IN THE MBR PARTITION TABLE. THE FIRST 3 PARTITIONS COULD BE HOLDING OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT YOU MAY WANT TO BOOT FROM. IS THIS CORRECT? Actually, I thought the USB stick had been blanked out before, but I'm nit sure and will look at it again. 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. -- Christoph I will come back with the results of the check below later. -- Christoph !-- scripts deleted-- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from within Windows XP. I will try out your method below now. kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: USB 2.0 at usbus4 umass0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 3 on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk PMAP Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. # # # fdisk /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) /tmp/l12: unmodified, readonly: line 1 kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: USB 2.0 at usbus4 umass0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 3 on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk PMAP Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. # # # fdisk /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: UNUSED The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 5 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 # -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: 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. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO THE MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE??? OR DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO ANOTHER USB STICK??? The former, I copied the 8.0 iso image to an USB stick, booted it and installed it to the desktop PCs hard drive. That was one story. The other point is, that I now wanted to plug this USB stick into my Dell inspiron and install FreeBSD in the same manner to a free partition on my notebooks hard drive. 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. YOU MEAN YOU PLUGGED THE STICK WITH THE ISO INSTALLED ON IT THAT THE DESKTOP BOOTED FROM??? Yes, that same stick booted the desktop but is not recognized in the F12 menu of my notebook. Any clues? -- Christoph 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 ? LETS NOT GET CONFUSED WITH MSDOS /FREEBSD TERMS. IN FREEBSD A SLICE IS WHAT MSDOS CALLS A PARTITION. IN FREEBSD A PARTITION IS A FILE SYSTEM SUCH AS /, /USR, /VAR WITH IN THE SLICE. A SLICE IS MARKED AS ACTIVE MEANING ITS BOOTABLE. THE MBR The FreeBSD fdisk program names it partition. (MASTER BOOT RECORD)PARTITION TABLE IS REALLY FREEBSD SLICE TABLE. FROM YOUR STATEMENT ABOVE YOU HAVE A MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE WITH 4 PARTITIONS/SLICES DEFINED IN THE MBR PARTITION TABLE. THE FIRST 3 PARTITIONS COULD BE HOLDING OTHER OPERATING SYSTEMS THAT YOU MAY WANT TO BOOT FROM. IS THIS CORRECT? Actually, I thought the USB stick had been blanked out before, but I'm nit sure and will look at it again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from within Windows XP. I will try out your method below now. kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: USB 2.0 at usbus4 umass0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 3 on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk PMAP Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. # # # fdisk /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) /tmp/l12: unmodified, readonly: line 1 kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: USB 2.0 at usbus4 umass0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 3 on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk PMAP Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. # # # fdisk /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: UNUSED The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 5 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 # -- Christoph The dd command is what is used to copy the memstick.img to USB stick. The memstick.img is created with the dd command so no compression done. It has fixit included and is 3 times larger than the disc-1 iso file. Thats why I download the disc-1 iso and run the script to build the img on USB stick. So much faster this way. So I see that both usb sticks you are using are revision rev 2.00/1.10. But the stick that boots on your desktop will not boot on the laptop. And the stick that boots on the laptop will not boot on the desktop. Very strange indeed. This indicates that the pc bios are playing a big part in which USB stick it recognizes as bootable. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 1 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:00 +0100 Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from within Windows XP. This is likely your problem. As on the release page referring to this image (but substituting i386 for amd64) it should have been made using: # dd if=8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img of=/dev/da0 bs=10240 conv=sync This works; I've no idea what a HP windows tool might do instead, though your fdisk below may offer clues; certainly the cylinders/heads/sectors arrangement seems wrong for a disk made from this image by dd as above. kernel messages at the time usb stick is inserted: ugen4.3: USB 2.0 at usbus4 umass0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.10, addr 3 on usbus4 umass0: SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x umass0:1:0:-1: Attached to scbus1 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Retrying Command (per Sense Data) da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: USB 2.0 Flash Disk PMAP Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1921MB (3935000 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) GEOM: da0: media size does not match label. While mine is only a 1GB stick, it shows an entirely different geometry, with 1MB per cylinder. da0: 967MB (1981440 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 967C) # fdisk /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Here instead fdisk /dev/da0 sees: cylinders=967 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) # fdisk /dev/da0 *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=244 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: UNUSED The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 5 (24 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 1023/ head 254/ sector 63 The reason fdisk (bogusly) shows this as slice 4 is that this image is so-called 'dangerously dedicated' to FreeBSD, ie it is an unsliced disk, and needs to be mounted as /dev/da0a (not da0s1a or da0s4a). It contains a bsdlabel allocating 16 sectors for boot code (/boot/boot1 and /boot/boot2) with partition 'a' beginning at offset 16 (8KB). It boots just fine (though slowly as a 4x CDROM :) on my 2002 IBM Thinkpad T23 with only USB 1.0, after having promoted it in the BIOS boot order. I suggest remaking the image using dd exactly as above and trying that. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
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? -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)
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? -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org 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. -- Christoph ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
