Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 16:21>>
On 8/1/07, *Reid Linnemann* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote:Written by Ross Penner on 08/01/07 13:34>> > Hi everybody, > > I'm trying to install a system on a machine that doesn't have an optical > drive. I plan on using a USB flash drive to do the job and found a > messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ( http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg55434.html <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg55434.html>) > about just such a thing. The script provided converts the CD image into > one suitable for a flashmemory stick. I used and coverted it without > issue. The instructions say to use dd to prepare the flash drive so > executed > #dd if=flashbsd.iso of=/dev/da0 > I'm not entirely confident that that was the correct procedure, as I'm > quite unfamilar with dd. Unfortunetly, I can't seem to get the drive to > boot. I can mount the filesystem so it seems that prepareing the drive > was succesful. I'm using a via chipset and yes, the bios is set to boot > from USB-FDD. I used the 6.2 boot only image. > > Thanks for any insight you can provide me. > > Ross > That seems correct to me. You may want to 'bsdlabel -B /dev/da0' after writing the ufs image to it. The script you referenced does this to the image before you write it to the flash drive, so the boot code should already be there... but it appears to have gotten lost. Perhaps it never worked in the first place? rosbot# bsdlabel -B /dev/da0 bsdlabel: partition c doesn't cover the whole unit! bsdlabel: An incorrect partition c may cause problems for standard system utilitiesI didn't do anything to the drive before dd'ing to it. Should have it been prepared somehow? I assumed dd would take care of partitions. There is a da0a and a da0c in /dev/ .
No, that's just a warning message and does not prevent the bootcode from being installed. Have you ever booted any other system from this flash disk on this machine?
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