Did somebody boot old Sony Vaio laptop from FreeBSD memstick successfully?

[Bob K]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 08:42:39PM +0400, Lev Serebryakov wrote:
> Hello, Warren.
> You wrote 28 ???????????? 2014 ??., 20:32:35:
> 
> >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 10-R (i386) on old Sony Vaio laptop (it is
> >> VGN-SZ340P, Merom generation of Core2, ~2007).
> >>
> >> It allows to select "USB Hard drive" or "USB Optical Drive" as boot device,
> >> but it writes "No operating system" in both cases.
[...]
>  I tried this too... It looks like this old Laptop / BIOS wants to see
>  special USB Floppy / USB Optical drive device, not generic "umass" one.

Hi Lev,

	According to
http://community.sony.com/t5/VAIO-Upgrade-Backup-Recovery/VAIO-VGN-NR110E-how-to-boot-from-a-USB-stick/td-p/65819
there may be settings in your BIOS that look like Advanced -> External
Drive Boot.  Maybe that's the issue?

Regards,
-Bob

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