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Subject: Re: Boot USB memstick with MBR (WAS: Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal
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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