On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Philip Homburg <pch-fbs...@u-1.phicoh.com> wrote:
> >It's not that hard create a mbr based usb-stick. Far easier than to find a > >CD burner. > > 'Not hard' means > - undocumented. Or at least, if you start with release notes and install > instructions you won't find it. > - Probably only works if you already have a FreeBSD system. > > And if it is indeed 'not hard', why not just generate such an image as > part > of the release build? > As someone who burn memsticks weekly and don't own a cd r/w, I agree. It seems there's no way to download an .iso or .img image that will boot from usb on legacy bios. This is bad and should be fixed. We shouldn't expect people that want to experiment with FreeBSD on non-UEFI hardware to already have a FreeBSD installation where they can prepare boot media... They shouldn't have to. File a bug report in bugzilla and try to poke the right people (I don't know who is working in this area). I guess the options are, either we make a hybrid .img that'll boot off both (maybe not that easy if it requires changes to boot assembly code) or just add a -legacy-bios.img to the image generation scripts. This is important since it's about lowering the threshold of bringing people to FreeBSD and giving a good (i.e. working) first impression. > > >I believe boot/loader.conf is something you have to create, it is not > there > >by default. > > That's not the problem. The problem is that it lives on a separate zpool > that > is lost at every reboot. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
