On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Philip Homburg
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
I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and
FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950
BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized.
For reference I tried an image for a random other OS and in that case the
USB stick is recognize
On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg wrote:
> I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and
> FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950
> BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized.
Can you download the image from
https://peop
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 2:11 PM Ed Maste wrote:
> On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg wrote:
> > I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and
> > FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950
> > BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not
> On 23 May 2018 at 17:51, Philip Homburg wrote:
> > I tried both FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-bootonly.iso.xz and
> > FreeBSD-11.2-BETA2-amd64-mini-memstick.img.xz on a Dell PowerEdge 2950
> > BIOS version 2.7.0. With both images, the USB stick is not recognized.
>
> Can you download the image from
>Can you download the image from
>https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image.amd64.xz, uncompress and
>write it to a USB stick and try on this system? This is a
>MBR-partitioned dual-mode test image. It's not an installer - it
>should just boot to a login prompt - but can be used to test this
>s
On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg wrote:
>
> I have bad news and some good news.
>
> The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized as
> a boot device. Same as with the 11.2-BETA2 images.
At least it's not a regression.
> The good news is that if I completely rec
> On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg wrote:
> >
> > I have bad news and some good news.
> >
> > The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized as
> > a boot device. Same as with the 11.2-BETA2 images.
>
> At least it's not a regression.
>
> > The good news is that
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 08:29:57AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On 25 May 2018 at 04:51, Philip Homburg wrote:
> > >
> > > I have bad news and some good news.
> > >
> > > The bad news is that with this image the USB stick doesn't get recognized
> > > as
> > > a boot device. Same as with the
>Strange. Can you try an updated test image of mine
>(https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28.xz)
That gives a 404.
I have the strong suspision that your previous image doesn't get recognized as
bootable because the C/H/S values are not filled in.
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On 30 May 2018 at 18:08, Philip Homburg wrote:
>>Strange. Can you try an updated test image of mine
>>(https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28.xz)
Oops - that should have been
https://people.freebsd.org/~emaste/mini-image-2018-05-28-amd64.xz
But the most recent snapshot images h
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