Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:05:09 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One USB drive boots, the other doesn't... Message-ID: <49B1AC25.3000700@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <5600293.831236378037376.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> References: <5600293.831236378037376.JavaMail.HALO$@halo>
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Peter Steele wrote: > I have a process with creates bootable USB disks with FreeBSD 7.0. > The creation of the USB disks is prettystraightforward. We have a > master OS image saved as a tarball, and when we want to create a new > USB disk, we simply create a single bootable UFS partition on the > target USB drive and then extract and copy the tarball image onto the > USB disk. > > We just got a bunch of new 4GB USB disks from a different > manufacturer than we had been using and when we try to boot a system > with this disk the BIOS reports a "missing operating system" error. > Well, the OS is definitely not missing, so I assume that the BIOS > can't read the boot info from the USB drive for some reason. Is there > a way around this? Surely there must be away to get a bootable OS > onto a USB drive, regardless of it's brand. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To > unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > Shot in the dark but are they by any chance U3 devices? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U3 Chris
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