RE: Can't boot off the USB image
We boot off USB disks all the time without issues. As long as the disk is listed first in the BIOS and it's a proper FBSD image, it works fine... -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Fbsd1 Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 11:17 PM To: rocwhite168 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't boot off the USB image rocwhite168 wrote: My computers (Dell SX280 PCs or Dell D600 laptop) seem to refuse to boot off the USB disk with non-Windows images are written to it (I have also tried OpenSolaris images). I've tried using dd to write the .img files, or using unetbootin to write either .img or .iso images, or using UltraISO to write the iso files to my USB disk, but all the methods failed. But if the image was a Windows boot disk, it did work. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Is it simply because the computers are to old? Or do I have to do anything special for the FreeBSD images to make the computers boot off a USB device? Thank you very much! ___ When you say USB disk, you do mean an USB cabled external disk hard drive correct? That being the case, you have to download the FreeBSD disc1.iso file and burn it to a cdrom disk and then boot off that to start the sysinstall process to populate your USB cabled external disk hard drive with the FreeBSD operating system. Reading the FreeBSD manual on the install process or the Freebsd install guide should help you a lot. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ or http://www.a1poweruser.com Now if on the other hand you are really talking about a (USB memory stick, flash drive, key disk, stick disk, or pen) which all mean the same thing, then you should read this article Everything you want to know about Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick http://www.a1poweruser.com/30.00-USB_installing_article.php If none of this helps you then repost with an more detailed description of just what you did and what the result was. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't boot off the USB image
Sorry for the ambiguity, but I meant the flash drive... While I waited for responses from the mailing list last night, I kept on searching the Internet for possible solutions, and finally solved the problem by first cleaning the the flash drive: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1k count=1, then writing the image to it. Thanks for your information anyway! And I'll read the article later. Sorry to everyone if I raised a possibly repeated question! rocwhite168 2010/2/18 Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com: rocwhite168 wrote: My computers (Dell SX280 PCs or Dell D600 laptop) seem to refuse to boot off the USB disk with non-Windows images are written to it (I have also tried OpenSolaris images). I've tried using dd to write the .img files, or using unetbootin to write either .img or .iso images, or using UltraISO to write the iso files to my USB disk, but all the methods failed. But if the image was a Windows boot disk, it did work. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Is it simply because the computers are to old? Or do I have to do anything special for the FreeBSD images to make the computers boot off a USB device? Thank you very much! ___ When you say USB disk, you do mean an USB cabled external disk hard drive correct? That being the case, you have to download the FreeBSD disc1.iso file and burn it to a cdrom disk and then boot off that to start the sysinstall process to populate your USB cabled external disk hard drive with the FreeBSD operating system. Reading the FreeBSD manual on the install process or the Freebsd install guide should help you a lot. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ or http://www.a1poweruser.com Now if on the other hand you are really talking about a (USB memory stick, flash drive, key disk, stick disk, or pen) which all mean the same thing, then you should read this article Everything you want to know about Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick http://www.a1poweruser.com/30.00-USB_installing_article.php If none of this helps you then repost with an more detailed description of just what you did and what the result was. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Can't boot off the USB image
My computers (Dell SX280 PCs or Dell D600 laptop) seem to refuse to boot off the USB disk with non-Windows images written to it (I have also tried OpenSolaris images). I've tried using dd to write the .img files, or using unetbootin to write either .img or .iso images, or using UltraISO to write the iso files to my USB disk, but all the methods failed. But if the image was a Windows boot disk, it did work. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Is it simply because the computers are old enough? Or do I have to do anything special for the FreeBSD images to make the computers boot off a USB device? Thank you very much! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't boot off the USB image
rocwhite168 wrote: My computers (Dell SX280 PCs or Dell D600 laptop) seem to refuse to boot off the USB disk with non-Windows images are written to it (I have also tried OpenSolaris images). I've tried using dd to write the .img files, or using unetbootin to write either .img or .iso images, or using UltraISO to write the iso files to my USB disk, but all the methods failed. But if the image was a Windows boot disk, it did work. Does anyone know what the problem could be? Is it simply because the computers are to old? Or do I have to do anything special for the FreeBSD images to make the computers boot off a USB device? Thank you very much! ___ When you say USB disk, you do mean an USB cabled external disk hard drive correct? That being the case, you have to download the FreeBSD disc1.iso file and burn it to a cdrom disk and then boot off that to start the sysinstall process to populate your USB cabled external disk hard drive with the FreeBSD operating system. Reading the FreeBSD manual on the install process or the Freebsd install guide should help you a lot. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ or http://www.a1poweruser.com Now if on the other hand you are really talking about a (USB memory stick, flash drive, key disk, stick disk, or pen) which all mean the same thing, then you should read this article Everything you want to know about Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick http://www.a1poweruser.com/30.00-USB_installing_article.php If none of this helps you then repost with an more detailed description of just what you did and what the result was. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
