From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 28 01:28:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D2ED12CE for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vb0-x22c.google.com (mail-vb0-x22c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400c:c02::22c]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8F29315FA for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:28:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vb0-f44.google.com with SMTP id f12so3929577vbg.31 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:28:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=/coA66XhwEMaZ5l3il16hjorarhpdwLaG9mds8WjRo4=; b=XWU7SeMHZkwxzyax8pHz9NvXJvANTKNPkpi2vp2vDfOGmpTy3sI64s+xHoa8kFUD5r wm6TjZI8CtqAmckW5A6bLCeUK3FAY3mXpf5/eh7oHQEZJV4HrxrwHgBkQwEFic/ElocR FpF+MXSq1ojHeyFv0cfoX/J/7tjmuuBNLYKJZ37qMOq5PxOF1P6kVBr9p3orK8OGTmUX /j1HU6tNn68MdoEn87cuDWiaDjLQjJchYRxEhVdrhFq/msX0r7FPdhBP7+R0NjuN01kN vgA3NFApzZSW3AUyRHuQi+BlusIlJf2uFse5YFQC61yij/EnBYVVPsFvrEIC7YHmJVNM R89w== X-Received: by 10.52.227.7 with SMTP id rw7mr113540vdc.77.1390872505706; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:28:25 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: nicolas.geniteau@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.105.7 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:28:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Nicolas Geniteau Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 02:28:05 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: k1_NpYrpVgLlREW2OEaiqB_JZig Message-ID: Subject: Re: Unable to boot on USB key on Lenovo Thinkpad T440 To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Kata Goto , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:28:26 -0000 Hello, I have the same problem on all HP dc7800 / dc7900 desktops of my university. 2014-01-25 Warren Block : > Some work with gpart and dd might be able to convert the USB image to an > MBR/BSDlabel format which would boot. As Warren suggested, some work with gpart / dd can resolve the problem : # dd if=/dev/da0a of=bsd-install.dd bs=4M # gpart destroy -F da0 # gpart create -s mbr da0 # gpart bootcode -b /boot/mbr da0 # gpart add -t freebsd da0 # gpart set -a active -i 1 da0 # gpart create -s bsd da0s1 # gpart bootcode -b /boot/boot da0s1 # gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -a 4k da0s1 # dd if=bsd-install.dd of=/dev/da0s1a bs=4M # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt # echo "/dev/da0s1a / ufs ro,noatime 1 1" > /mnt/etc/fstab # umount /mnt It worked for me. I hope it will work for you too. -- Nicolas