Date: Thu, 24 May 2018 09:49:37 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: Philip Homburg <pch-fbsd-1@u-1.phicoh.com>, Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com>, re@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver) Message-ID: <201805241649.w4OGnblp041471@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2DT1qTs2v9rmEoiPs5OduKLQTMrnnm1jSY5xCy19TXe6w@mail.gmail.com>
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> 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. Ed, I tested this here on my R710 that was failing to boot in Bios mode with the amd64-11.2-Beta2 disc1.iso, your mini-image boots fine in either Bios or UEFI mode on my Dell R710, so what ever you did fixed at least my one data point. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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