Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 09:32:35 -0700 (MST) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Lev Serebryakov <lev@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Did somebody boot old Sony Vaio laptop from FreeBSD memstick successfully? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1401280927080.49265@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <976149194.20140128115104@serebryakov.spb.ru> References: <976149194.20140128115104@serebryakov.spb.ru>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2014, Lev Serebryakov wrote: > Hello, All. > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 10-R (i386) on old Sony Vaio laptop (it is > VGN-SZ340P, Merom generation of Core2, ~2007). > > It allows to select "USB Hard drive" or "USB Optical Drive" as boot device, > but it writes "No operating system" in both cases. > > I've checked memstick and found, that it doesn't have MBR (it looks like > /dev/da4a). I've added MBR, one slice, mbr bootcode, make this slice > active, and dump memstick image to /dev/da4s1. My desktop boots from this > memstick without problems, laptop says "No boot code". On MBR/BSDlabel, a second chunk of bootcode must be written inside the BSD partition also. Nicolas Geniteau just posted this very nice procedure for converting a memory stick to MBR/BSDlabel. I have not tried it yet, but it does write that additional bootcode. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2014-January/255841.html
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