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From: Christoph Moench-Tegeder <cmt@burggraben.net>
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Subject: Re: Unable to boot memstick on APU2
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## Stefan Bethke (stb@lassitu.de):

> I'm stumped by a weird error: loader loads the kernel, and the kernel
> probes the USB stick successfully, but da0 never shows up. I’ve tried
> with FreeBSD-11.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img and
> FreeBSD-11.2-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img.

I've had this happen with a rather old USB stick (back from the days
when 8GB was considered "huge", these days it's my boot stick...)
Letting the machine with the stick inserted sit a little on the
boot prompt did the trick for me. A newer stick "just worked fine",
so I wrote that off as "aging flash".

Regards,
Christoph

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