From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 6 23:05:16 2009 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 5BABC106566C for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from honeysuckle.london.02.net (honeysuckle.london.02.net [87.194.255.144]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3AA38FC0A for ; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:05:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from [192.168.1.75] (93.97.24.219) by honeysuckle.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 497A2AF000C8077D; Fri, 6 Mar 2009 23:05:10 +0000 Message-ID: <49B1AC25.3000700@onetel.com> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:05:09 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Steele References: <5600293.831236378037376.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> In-Reply-To: <5600293.831236378037376.JavaMail.HALO$@halo> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: One USB drive boots, the other doesn't... 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: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:05:16 -0000 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