Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2014 02:48:21 +0000 From: Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in> To: Eric Roseman <Eric.Roseman@Colorado.EDU> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failed memstick install Message-ID: <20140401024820.GA25074@SDF.ORG> In-Reply-To: <201404010119.s311JXkd014593@refuge.colorado.edu> References: <201404010119.s311JXkd014593@refuge.colorado.edu>
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hello eric, please check out the article at; http://techpad.co.uk/content.php?sid=78 at the bottom of that article is the exact invocation of 'dd' required to write the memstick image to a usb drive. all the best, ~mayuresh On Tue, Apr 01, 2014 at 01:19:33AM +0000, Eric Roseman wrote: > Hello, > > I've recently installed FreeBSD 10.0 using the memstick image > and following the install directions in the handbook as closely as > possible. After rebooting the screen displays "Operating System Not Found" > and refuses to boot. I've double checked the bios settings to ensue this > disk is the default boot target and tested booting from both legacy bios > and UEFI to no avail. The system is a lenove thinkpad x120e. I'm curious > if this is a bug in the installer anyone else has experienced. > > I created the usb install flash drive with the following command: > > dd if=FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img of=/dev/<usbdevice> bs=64k > > Then confirmed the sha256 checksum of both the 'if' and 'of' targets. I > also tried with multiple different usb flash drives. > > For a majority of the steps during the install I selected the > default/recommended options and chose the guided partitioning method > with a default layout using the entire disk which created a GPT layout > with three partitions freebsd-boot, freebsd-ufs, and freebsd-swap. The > install process finished without error. Is there a boot flag I need to > set on the freebsd-boot partition? > > Thanks, > > Eric > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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