Yes, the same USB key, tried both FreeBSD and OpenBSD images with the
same exact procedure roughly 4-5 times by now with the same results.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 11:50 AM, Donald Allen <donaldcal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When you successfully booted the FreeBSD installer from a USB key, was it
> the same key? Did you prepare it the same way (using dd in cygwin)?
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 9:05 AM, Cinolt Yuklair <cinol...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for the reply and apologies for the lack of information -- I
>> will provide more detail.
>>
>> The motherboard model for my machine is "GA-78LMT-S2 rev 1201", the
>> specs for which can be found exactly here:
>> http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4643#sp
>> AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor
>> 8GiB RAM
>> Radeon(TM) RX 460 Graphics
>>
>> The machine has one internal hard drive connected to one of the SATA
>> slots, "TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 ATA Device", 931.51 GiB.
>> On it, I have installed Windows 10 64-bit with no problem.
>> I boot Windows, install the latest Cygwin for a "dd" command, plug in
>> my SanDisk 16GiB USB thumbdrive, and run the following commands on a
>> privileged Cygwin bash prompt:
>> $ /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdb (to ensure that /dev/sdb refers to my USB
>> thumbdrive, it does)
>> $ dd if=install60.fs of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
>> $ sync
>>
>> Now, before I proceed let me explain what I see during a normal boot
>> (i.e. when there are no USB's connected at boot).
>> 1) The computer is totally off, the monitor is pitch black.
>> 2) I press the ON button, the fans start spinning, the monitor is
>> still pitch black, the computer is presumably in POST.
>> 3) After a moment, the monitor turns on its backlight, but only
>> displaying black.
>> 4) The monitor "flickers" (backlighted-black to pitch-black, and back)
>> 5) Some text appears on the screen, if I'm not mistaken this is the
>> BIOS doing preliminary hardware recognition (I see text regarding PCI
>> buses and such).
>> 6) Flickers again and now I see Windows logo, etc.
>>
>> If I hold in the DELETE key during bootup, it will display a blue
>> background BIOS menu at exactly STEP 5 in the above list.
>>
>> Now, when I turn the computer off, plug in the USB, and turn it on,
>> the computer will actually seem to "halt" or "freeze" at exactly STEP
>> 3 in the above list.
>> The computer does not respond to anything, being stuck at step 3 with
>> a backlighted black monitor.
>> This also means that I cannot even reach the BIOS menu, because that
>> is at STEP 5!
>> Of course, if I shutdown and unplug the USB, the computer can boot again.
>>
>> Another peculiarity is, if I boot into the BIOS menu with the DELETE
>> key, and THEN plug in my USB thumbdrive, the computer will "freeze"
>> here as well -- the monitor stays constant and keyboard presses are
>> completely ignored.
>>
>> One might think that the BIOS cannot handle USB thumbdrives properly,
>> but if I format FreeBSD 11.0 USB image onto it with the exact same
>> procedure as above, the BIOS has no problem at all booting it (and
>> I've happily used FreeBSD on this machine in the past).
>>
>> This is why I think there is some quality in install60.fs that my BIOS
>> simply chokes on when it tries to recognize it as a device. I honestly
>> do not know what it can be.
>>
>> In addition, I have tried using the "Rufus" Windows utility in place
>> of "dd" to format my USB drive, to no avail.
>> I also tried fiddling around with obvious BIOS options, to no avail.
>>
>> Here is the output of dmesg when I booted from a FreeBSD USB installer
>> image: Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Copyright (c) 1992-2016 The FreeBSD Project.
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>>     The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
>> FreeBSD 11.0-RELEASE-p1 #0 r306420: Thu Sep 29 01:43:23 UTC 2016
>>     r...@releng2.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>> FreeBSD clang version 3.8.0 (tags/RELEASE_380/final 262564) (based on
>> LLVM 3.8.0)
>> VT(vga): resolution 640x480
>> CPU: AMD FX(tm)-4300 Quad-Core Processor             (3816.96-MHz K8-class
>> CPU)
>>   Origin="AuthenticAMD"  Id=0x600f20  Family=0x15  Model=0x2  Stepping=0
>>
>> Features=0x178bfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,HTT>
>>
>> Features2=0x3e98320b<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,MON,SSSE3,FMA,CX16,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,POPCNT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX,F16C>
>>   AMD Features=0x2e500800<SYSCALL,NX,MMX+,FFXSR,Page1GB,RDTSCP,LM>
>>   AMD
>> Features2=0x1ebbfff<LAHF,CMP,SVM,ExtAPIC,CR8,ABM,SSE4A,MAS,Prefetch,OSVW,IBS,XOP,SKINIT,WDT,LWP,FMA4,TCE,NodeId,TBM,Topology,PCXC,PNXC>
>>   Structured Extended Features=0x8<BMI1>
>>   SVM: (disabled in BIOS) NP,NRIP,VClean,AFlush,DAssist,NAsids=65536
>>   TSC: P-state invariant, performance statistics
>> real memory  = 8589934592 (8192 MB)
>> avail memory = 8250204160 (7868 MB)
>> Event timer "LAPIC" quality 400
>> ACPI APIC Table: <GBT    GBTUACPI>
>> FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs
>> FreeBSD/SMP: 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)
>> ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2
>> ioapic0 <Version 2.1> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
>> random: entropy device external interface
>> kbd1 at kbdmux0
>> netmap: loaded module
>> module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (vesa, 0xffffffff8101c950, 0) error 19
>> vtvga0: <VT VGA driver> on motherboard
>> cryptosoft0: <software crypto> on motherboard
>> acpi0: <GBT GBTUACPI> on motherboard
>> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
>> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>> cpu1: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>> cpu2: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>> cpu3: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>> attimer0: <AT timer> port 0x40-0x43 on acpi0
>> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>> Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
>> hpet0: <High Precision Event Timer> iomem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff irq 0,8 on
>> acpi0
>> Timecounter "HPET" frequency 14318180 Hz quality 950
>> atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x73 on acpi0
>> Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
>> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900
>> acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
>> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
>> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
>> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>> pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 18 at device 2.0 on pci0
>> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
>> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xee00-0xeeff mem
>> 0xc0000000-0xcfffffff,0xdfe00000-0xdfffffff,0xfdf80000-0xfdfbffff irq
>> 18 at device 0.0 on pci1
>> vgapci0: Boot video device
>> hdac0: <ATI (0xaae0) HDA Controller> mem 0xfdffc000-0xfdffffff irq 19
>> at device 0.1 on pci1
>> pcib2: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci0
>> pci2: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib2
>> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
>> 0xde00-0xdeff mem 0xfdbff000-0xfdbfffff,0xfdbf8000-0xfdbfbfff irq 18
>> at device 0.0 on pci2
>> re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
>> re0: Chip rev. 0x2c800000
>> re0: MAC rev. 0x00100000
>> miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
>> rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
>> rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX,
>> 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master,
>> 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow,
>> 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
>> re0: Using defaults for TSO: 65518/35/2048
>> re0: Ethernet address: 1c:1b:0d:44:26:b5
>> re0: netmap queues/slots: TX 1/256, RX 1/256
>> ahci0: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 AHCI SATA controller> port
>> 0xff00-0xff07,0xfe00-0xfe03,0xfd00-0xfd07,0xfc00-0xfc03,0xfb00-0xfb0f
>> mem 0xfe02f000-0xfe02f3ff irq 22 at device 17.0 on pci0
>> ahci0: AHCI v1.10 with 4 3Gbps ports, Port Multiplier supported
>> ahci0: quirks=0x22000<ATI_PMP_BUG,1MSI>
>> ahcich0: <AHCI channel> at channel 0 on ahci0
>> ahcich1: <AHCI channel> at channel 1 on ahci0
>> ahcich2: <AHCI channel> at channel 2 on ahci0
>> ahcich3: <AHCI channel> at channel 3 on ahci0
>> ohci0: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB controller> mem
>> 0xfe02e000-0xfe02efff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0
>> usbus0 on ohci0
>> ohci1: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB controller> mem
>> 0xfe02d000-0xfe02dfff irq 16 at device 18.1 on pci0
>> usbus1 on ohci1
>> ehci0: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB 2.0 controller> mem
>> 0xfe02c000-0xfe02c0ff irq 17 at device 18.2 on pci0
>> usbus2: EHCI version 1.0
>> usbus2 on ehci0
>> ohci2: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB controller> mem
>> 0xfe02b000-0xfe02bfff irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0
>> usbus3 on ohci2
>> ohci3: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB controller> mem
>> 0xfe02a000-0xfe02afff irq 18 at device 19.1 on pci0
>> usbus4 on ohci3
>> ehci1: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB 2.0 controller> mem
>> 0xfe029000-0xfe0290ff irq 19 at device 19.2 on pci0
>> usbus5: EHCI version 1.0
>> usbus5 on ehci1
>> atapci0: <ATI IXP700/800 UDMA133 controller> port
>> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfa00-0xfa0f at device 20.1 on
>> pci0
>> ata0: <ATA channel> at channel 0 on atapci0
>> ata1: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci0
>> hdac1: <ATI SB600 HDA Controller> mem 0xfe024000-0xfe027fff irq 16 at
>> device 20.2 on pci0
>> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.3 on pci0
>> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>> pcib3: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 20.4 on pci0
>> pci3: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib3
>> ohci4: <AMD SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB controller> mem
>> 0xfe028000-0xfe028fff irq 18 at device 20.5 on pci0
>> usbus6 on ohci4
>> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
>> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
>> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>> kbd0 at atkbd0
>> atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range
>> hwpstate0: <Cool`n'Quiet 2.0> on cpu0
>> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
>> nvme cam probe device init
>> hdacc0: <ATI R6xx HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac0
>> hdaa0: <ATI R6xx Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc0
>> pcm0: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 3 on hdaa0
>> pcm1: <ATI R6xx (HDMI)> at nid 5 on hdaa0
>> hdacc1: <Realtek ALC887 HDA CODEC> at cad 0 on hdac1
>> hdaa1: <Realtek ALC887 Audio Function Group> at nid 1 on hdacc1
>> pcm2: <Realtek ALC887 (Rear Analog)> at nid 20 and 24,26 on hdaa1
>> pcm3: <Realtek ALC887 (Front Analog)> at nid 27 and 25 on hdaa1
>> usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
>> usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
>> usbus2: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
>> usbus3: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
>> usbus4: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
>> usbus5: 480Mbps High Speed USB v2.0
>> usbus6: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0
>> ugen0.1: <ATI> at usbus0
>> uhub0: <ATI OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus0
>> ugen1.1: <ATI> at usbus1
>> uhub1: <ATI OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus1
>> ugen2.1: <ATI> at usbus2
>> uhub2: <ATI EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus2
>> ugen3.1: <ATI> at usbus3
>> uhub3: <ATI OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus3
>> ugen4.1: <ATI> at usbus4
>> uhub4: <ATI OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus4
>> ugen5.1: <ATI> at usbus5
>> uhub5: <ATI EHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus5
>> ugen6.1: <ATI> at usbus6
>> uhub6: <ATI OHCI root HUB, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usbus6
>> uhub6: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
>> uhub0: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
>> uhub1: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
>> uhub3: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
>> uhub4: 3 ports with 3 removable, self powered
>> uhub2: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
>> uhub5: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
>> ada0 at ahcich0 bus 0 scbus0 target 0 lun 0
>> ada0: <TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 MS2OA750> ATA8-ACS SATA 3.x device
>> ada0: Serial Number 86IKWR6NS
>> ada0: 300.000MB/s transfers (SATA 2.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes)
>> ada0: Command Queueing enabled
>> ada0: 953869MB (1953525168 512 byte sectors)
>> SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
>> SMP: AP CPU #3 Launched!
>> SMP: AP CPU #2 Launched!
>> Timecounter "TSC-low" frequency 1908478009 Hz quality 1000
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ufs/FreeBSD_Install [ro,noatime]...
>> Root mount waiting for: usbus5
>> ugen5.2: <SanDisk> at usbus5
>> umass0: <SanDisk Ultra, class 0/0, rev 2.10/1.00, addr 2> on usbus5
>> umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x8100
>> umass0:6:0: Attached to scbus6
>> da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus6 target 0 lun 0
>> da0: <SanDisk Ultra 1.00> Removable Direct Access SPC-4 SCSI device
>> da0: Serial Number 4C531001470902104180
>> da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
>> da0: 14875MB (30464000 512 byte sectors)
>> da0: quirks=0x2<NO_6_BYTE>
>> GEOM: da0: the secondary GPT header is not in the last LBA.
>> GEOM: diskid/DISK-4C531001470902104180: the secondary GPT header is
>> not in the last LBA.
>> mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ufs/FreeBSD_Install...
>> ugen4.2: <SEM> at usbus4
>> ukbd0: <SEM USB Keyboard, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 2> on usbus4
>> kbd2 at ukbd0
>> GEOM: diskid/DISK-4C531001470902104180: the secondary GPT header is
>> not in the last LBA.
>> random: unblocking device.
>> ugen4.3: <PixArt> at usbus4
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> ukbd1: <PixArt Gaming Mouse, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3> on usbus4
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> hid_get_item: Number of items(324) truncated to 255
>> kbd3 at ukbd1
>> re0: link state changed to UP
>> uhid0: <SEM USB Keyboard, class 0/0, rev 1.10/1.10, addr 2> on usbus4
>> ums0: <PixArt Gaming Mouse, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3> on usbus4
>> ums0: 5 buttons and [XYZ] coordinates ID=0
>> re0: link state changed to DOWN
>> re0: link state changed to UP

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