FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-amd64-disc1.iso unbootable on memstick

[Tomoaki AOKI]

Hi.

Are you shure you're using *.memstick.img?

*.iso are for optical drives.
If your memstick can perfectly (or at least enough for CD loader and
kernel) mimic optical drive, maybe with help by firmware, it would be
able to boot.

Otherwise, you should write FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-*-memstick.img with
dd. If you are using enough-sized memstick and amd64 arch PC,
FreeBSD-13.0-RC1-amd64-mrmstick.img should be preferred.

Note that if you downloaded smaller xz compressed image, you shoule
decompress it before writing.

If you are using *-memstick.img, something should need fixed.


On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 01:06:14 -0800 (PST)
"Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:

> Glen,
> 	Things get worse... I could at least boot the BETA4 .iso when
> I wrote it to a memstick.  I can NOT boot the RC1.  I have checked
> the sha512 of my image, wrote it twice, same results, I get:
> 
> CD Loader 1.2
> 
> Bulding the boot loader arguments
> Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... File not found
> Looking up /boot/loader... File not found
> Boot failed
> 
> I have tried 2 different systems, all known to have booted and
> installed many many many FreeBSD's from prior .iso written to
> memstick.
> 
> Regards,
> -- 
> Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org
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