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Date:      Thu, 24 May 2018 17:41:51 +0100
From:      Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com>,  freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver)
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On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:11 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
> > I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and
> > FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950
> > BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized.
>
> Can you download the image from
> https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image.amd64.xz, uncompress and
> write it to a USB stick and try on this system? This is a
> MBR-partitioned dual-mode test image. It's not an installer - it
> should just boot to a login prompt - but can be used to test this
> scheme.
>

Tested successfully on Dell Latitude E7450 for both legacy BIOS and UEFI
boot mode.



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