From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 28 16:42:46 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9E944161; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru (onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru [IPv6:2a01:4f8:131:60a2::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6112F1F68; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:42:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lion.home.serebryakov.spb.ru (unknown [IPv6:2001:470:923f:1:e01d:156b:782f:c36]) (Authenticated sender: lev@serebryakov.spb.ru) by onlyone.friendlyhosting.spb.ru (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D3BA14AC31; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:42:43 +0400 (MSK) Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:42:39 +0400 From: Lev Serebryakov Organization: FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1777063285.20140128204239@serebryakov.spb.ru> To: Warren Block Subject: Re: Did somebody boot old Sony Vaio laptop from FreeBSD memstick successfully? In-Reply-To: References: <976149194.20140128115104@serebryakov.spb.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list Reply-To: lev@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:42:46 -0000 Hello, Warren. You wrote 28 =D1=8F=D0=BD=D0=B2=D0=B0=D1=80=D1=8F 2014 =D0=B3., 20:32:35: >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 10-R (i386) on old Sony Vaio laptop (it is >> VGN-SZ340P, Merom generation of Core2, ~2007). >> >> It allows to select "USB Hard drive" or "USB Optical Drive" as boot devi= ce, >> but it writes "No operating system" in both cases. >> >> I've checked memstick and found, that it doesn't have MBR (it looks like >> /dev/da4a). I've added MBR, one slice, mbr bootcode, make this slice >> active, and dump memstick image to /dev/da4s1. My desktop boots from this >> memstick without problems, laptop says "No boot code". WB> On MBR/BSDlabel, a second chunk of bootcode must be written inside the= =20 WB> BSD partition also. Nicolas Geniteau just posted this very nice=20 WB> procedure for converting a memory stick to MBR/BSDlabel. I have not=20 WB> tried it yet, but it does write that additional bootcode. WB> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-January/25584= 1.html I tried this too... It looks like this old Laptop / BIOS wants to see special USB Floppy / USB Optical drive device, not generic "umass" one. --=20 // Black Lion AKA Lev Serebryakov