Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 15:59:09 -0500 From: "Martin G. McCormick" <martin@server1.shellworld.net> To: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: More Questions about Booting from a Thumb Drive Message-ID: <20140822205909.E8506229A2@server1.shellworld.net>
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I started with FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img, added loader.conf to get a serial console and then used dd to put the new image on to a thumb drive. We tried it on a brand new Dell server with no previous operating system. This server uses EFI instead of BIOS-type booting. The thumb drive was in the boot order and the system saw it, so to speak, but it can't boot from it. We also tried the drive on several laptops and work stations and none of them ever booted FreeBSD. The only thing I did to the image was the addition of the loader.conf file in /boot. In the pristine image, there is no loader.conf file, but this problem is more a failure to launch. The system sees the drive and could boot if it liked what it saw but it doesn't attempt to even start to boot. I created the drive image by: dd if=FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick-headless.img of=/dev/sdb Of course, /dev/sdb was what it happened to be on this computer but all that appeared to go perfectly. It just doesn't boot. Martin McCormick
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