From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 20:13:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0352616A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:13:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx05.covadmail.net [63.65.120.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A68243D1D for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:13:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kimandalan@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 2812 invoked from network); 22 Feb 2004 04:13:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO muttley.local) (kimandalan@66.134.19.212) by sun-qmail18 with SMTP; 22 Feb 2004 04:13:16 -0000 From: Kim and Alan To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:13:20 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200402212313.20327.kimandalan@covad.net> Subject: Can't boot from thumb disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: kimandalan@covad.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 04:13:22 -0000 All, I have used the 5.2 released version of the iso disk 1 to install the "minimal" installation onto a 256M "thumb disk". i know the installation completed and I can mount the disk on another Freebsd machine and see that all the files seem fine. If I don't install the boot selector then the bios reports "no operating system found" If I do install the boot selector then I get the boot0 prompt "F1 FreeBSD, Default F1" (So the Bios can boot from USB...) But then I get a short beep - the LED on the Thumb drive flashes and I get no further prompts. This happens again when I hit any key. I see other questions in the archives about this but no answers (at least that I can understand). Please help