From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Mar 21 17:22:15 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80EA0D16E29 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:22:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca) Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca", Issuer "CA_HLL_ISSUER_2016" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 444B51276 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:22:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39C94621F7; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:04:52 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at harte-lyne.ca Received: from inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id CHzq1UgCV3qD; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:04:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from webmail.harte-lyne.ca (inet04.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca [216.185.71.24]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by inet08.hamilton.harte-lyne.ca (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2C6C5620F5; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:04:41 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=harte-lyne.ca; s=dkim_hll; t=1490112281; bh=8+1BREje1jZeqgsq7CsnkQLDustgP0706xp14BGQW4I=; h=Date:Subject:From:To:Cc:Reply-To; b=eVxQB8WLlOEFlvZp3xKFTyz+QGvZlaFcWdN9RXP+JC7D3ERROJt8Z2kKkmKg1JjID fezCouAzOo0OoIv21O1uNAda43zyZVCB7+a324KhnzK0HIOz/l+92ixOlYIFGpbUG4 nucAg704GAw1JrbTcviWBINHiV4wnTl0wPUBxLCjvh/RlkIeKbLFJtewJjRx6BmNhp ti43eqP7sZqGizs/tlOTcZkW4++2C5giRpdERgKH03nAgdTB9gIZOBxcm1zKPYahhi W4Hr8fYMAokDBu7f79bvUIABa5WvcQalSE5ISpuncx8MTJ7lQYsR33Mx5q3bX1VmhE v331sRLq0baRA== Received: from 216.185.71.44 (SquirrelMail authenticated user byrnejb_hll) by webmail.harte-lyne.ca with HTTP; Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:04:41 -0400 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 12:04:41 -0400 Subject: Re: Unable to create bootable dvd From: "James B. Byrne" To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.22-4.el6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:22:15 -0000 On Mon, March 20, 2017 14:32, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > My hunch is: option "-dvd-compat" screws things up making it not bootable. > That option is only relevant to creation of video DVD ROMs > (main goal of it is re-arrange the track so that table of > contents files are the first onces along the track - which > is necessary in stand alone DVD players). > I do use this command all the time to burn bootable media > (FreeBSD, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu...) and all of them work > well for me. I do not use "-speed" option, but it shouldn't > matter, and using slowest speed as you specify may help getting > best possible quality of burn result. Anyway, > here is command line from my command history: > growisofs -Z > /dev/dvd=/data/system-media/debian-8.6.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso > I hope, this helps. > Valeri I created multiple dvds, some with and some without -dvd-compat and -speed=1. There was no apparent difference in effect. I had similar problems with usb flash media. Funnily enough I had no problem with either medium if I used FreeBSD-10.3 images. The problem turned out to be UEFI. This was not enabled on the host system I was attempting to install on; a re-purposed backup host formerly running CentOS-6.8. Enabling this feature in BIOS (there is a certain irony in this) allowed me to install FreeBSD-11.0 from the usb flash drive. This change also allowed the system to detect and initialise from optical media as well but the boot process never completes. I see this sort of stuff instead: Consoles: EFI Console Command line arguments: loader.efi Image base: 0x2235000 EFI version: 2.00 EFI Firmware: American Megatrends (rev 4.631) FreeBSD/amd64 EFI loader, Revision 1.1 (root@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org, Thu Sep 29 01:38:06 UTC 2016) efipart_readwrite: rw=1, status=9223372036854775815 efipart_readwrite: rw=1, status=9223372036854775815 can't open '/boot/loader.4th': no such file or directory 50 efipart_readwrite: rw=1, status=9223372036854775815 efipart_readwrite: rw=1, status=9223372036854775815 / /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x14ed860 data=0x132538+0x4baa68 syms=[0x8+0x159ee8+0x8+0x172d9c] Hit [enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]]... Start @ 0xffffffff802ff000 ... EFI framebuffer information: addr, size 0xc0000000, 0x1ff0000 dimensions 800 x 600 stride 800 masks 0x00ff0000, 0x0000ff00, 0x000000ff, 0xff000000 | at which point all activity ceases. Literally. One cannot even reboot from the keyboard using ctrl-alt-del. I speculate that the firmware on the motherboard is likely out-of-date and may be the source of the problem. In any case FreeBSD-11.0 has been installed to the HDD by other means and boots from that without problem. As this system is but a temporary replacement these difficulties turn out to be annoyances rather than a concern. Regards, -- *** e-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** Do NOT transmit sensitive data via e-Mail Do NOT open attachments nor follow links sent by e-Mail James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3