Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

[Christoph Kukulies]

Fbsd1 schrieb:
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>> I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my 
>> Desktop PC and install 8.0
>> from it.
>>
>> Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB 
>> stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu.
>>
>> Any clues?
>>
>> -- 
>> Christoph
>>
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> Older pc's have bios which do not have option to boot from USB stick.
> I think that is so in your case. Check mfg website for bios update.
> If not you are SOL. (shit outof luck)

I can boot USB sticks in general from that notebook/BIOS. That Dell 9400 
isn't that old. Today I tried an another USB stick (16GB) an Ubuntu 9.04 
boot image and it worked fine. I saw the boot device under F12 in the 
bootable device
menu.
It's definitely not the BIOS. Could be some partition problem (active 
partition?). Why is it part #4 btw, that FreeBSD resides in and not part 
#1 ? I followed some FreeBSD howto, if I'm not wrong, to bring the ISO 
to the USB stick. Think it was a tool from HP to write it to the stick.

--
Christoph