From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 19:34:27 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C0F11065670 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:34:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pengbai88@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f216.google.com (mail-bw0-f216.google.com [209.85.218.216]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E35918FC14 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:34:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz8 with SMTP id 8so504525bwz.3 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:34:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc :content-type; bh=QWFBF67CSdUZkQOXej96yVhwzWC7ETR2INPniKMleiE=; b=ICvaJRGY9ZraVnVOWd/wV8vUQwjFil97hX5DkutWv8HYtOG1/disqw5IRAe04iqn+o ZkCfSfiK3oMw4SS7MJb2OK+qk3lj9lRJG7MqsT3JL6mkVvbMv4AHHfhQYSQMBqX/cCws dVp9bw9jv7TT0BpF0t/gy+0qMT5hduWlA8zI0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=IlVgXeOsCsPGpC0fa31AWXmkMGkG907mYdDVhIX+F3CUM6H6gcOqY3a4x9IUNO8Uzn B6nVSDOsZDDh7EN8cINLNxLErfHTEQjvUpbyPiYrNCbZ9U8OIlkw9Tnouje2L8mQbMsr uTkmvXA7NjCMDhMa7nQ8DnOabIH1jO/hr4LqU= MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: pengbai88@gmail.com Received: by 10.204.49.70 with SMTP id u6mr6212818bkf.56.1266519955357; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:05:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <4B7CE968.7090302@a1poweruser.com> References: <3ef0da.2708.126deca8484.Coremail.rocwhite168@163.com> <4B7CE968.7090302@a1poweruser.com> From: rocwhite168 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:05:35 -0600 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3e25cb544df969b6 Message-ID: To: Fbsd1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot off the USB image X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:34:27 -0000 Sorry for the ambiguity, but I meant the flash drive... While I waited for responses from the mailing list last night, I kept on searching the Internet for possible solutions, and finally solved the problem by first cleaning the the flash drive: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1k count=1, then writing the image to it. Thanks for your information anyway! And I'll read the article later. Sorry to everyone if I raised a possibly repeated question! rocwhite168 2010/2/18 Fbsd1 : > rocwhite168 wrote: >> >> My computers (Dell SX280 PCs or Dell D600 laptop) seem > >>to refuse to boot off the USB disk with non-Windows images are >>written to it (I have also tried OpenSolaris images). >>I've tried using dd to write the .img files, or using unetbootin to >>write either .img or .iso images, or using UltraISO to write the iso >>files to my USB disk, but all the methods failed. But if the image was >a >> Windows boot disk, it did work. Does anyone know what the problem >could be? >> Is it simply because the computers are to old? Or do I >>have to do anything special for the FreeBSD images to make the >computers >> boot off a USB device? >> >> >> Thank you very much! >> _______________________________________________ >> > > When you say USB disk, you do mean an USB cabled external disk hard drive > correct? That being the case, you have to download the FreeBSD disc1.iso > file and burn it to a cdrom disk and then boot off that to start the > sysinstall process to populate your USB cabled external disk hard drive with > the FreeBSD operating system. Reading the FreeBSD manual on the install > process or the Freebsd install guide should help you a lot. > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ > or > http://www.a1poweruser.com > > > Now if on the other hand you are really talking about a (USB memory stick, > flash drive, key disk, stick disk, or pen) which all mean the same thing, > then you should read this article "Everything you want to know about > Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick" > http://www.a1poweruser.com/30.00-USB_installing_article.php > > If none of this helps you then repost with an more detailed description of > just what you did and what the result was. > > > >