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) Message-ID: <CAECmPwvPeKOeBiH%2B_UFz2mpE1XjxnZv%2B_PjRVrv%2B1cPeOQ=4=w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2DT1qTs2v9rmEoiPs5OduKLQTMrnnm1jSY5xCy19TXe6w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAECmPwvw4c-zUkaPLsEuaH9ZT2hQUrHqgMTQLmuJBT6x%2B0bSag@mail.gmail.com> <m1fLbfT-0000H1C@stereo.hq.phicoh.net> <CAPyFy2DT1qTs2v9rmEoiPs5OduKLQTMrnnm1jSY5xCy19TXe6w@mail.gmail.com>
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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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